By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Samira al-Sahli, the first Palestinian woman dying under torture in Syrian regime’s prisons, according to the Palestinian Committee for Human Rights. Al-Sahli worked in aid and relief...
(Arab News)- Fahad Al-Hajiri, a Saudi high school student, was involved in a suicide attack at the beginning of this month after IS chose him and three others to carry out an operation inside an oilfield in Homs. Al-Hajiri, nicknamed Abu Azzam Al-Sharqi, lived in Dammam, where he...
A third Australian has died in the past two weeks while fighting with Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, a report said Sunday. The man, who was not named, was believed to be from south-west Sydney and married with children, according to the Sun Herald. Australia's...
By Laila Bassam and Sylvia Westall RASHAYA Lebanon (Reuters) - On mountains close to the Syrian border, members of Lebanon's minority Druze sect say they are ready to defend their towns and villages with arms if the civil war next raging door gets much nearer....
(AFP)- A nine-year-old girl has become the star of a YouTube comedy that depicts with bittersweet humour the harsh reality of everyday life in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo. Rasha plays the role of "Umm Abdo al-Halabiya", a housewife who must make do in a city devastated...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate will bring a tough new tone to the debate over Washington's foreign policy, with lawmakers expected use their new clout and power over the budget to promote a more interventionist foreign policy....
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian state newspaper criticized the United Nations envoy to the country shortly before he arrived in Damascus on Saturday, for pursuing a plan that involves halting fighting in certain areas of the war-wracked nation. The daily Al-Thawra newspaper said...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The former head of Syria's main political opposition said he had visited Russia with other opposition figures and had discussed ways to end the conflict with Damascus's ally Moscow, but had insisted that President Bashar al-Assad must go....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State's campaign of extreme violence and massive killing against Sheitat tribe east Syrian has pushed its youth to follow military training by Syrian regime army in Palmyra desert, sources said....
By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yuisra Ahmed (Zaman AL Wasl)- Bambino band, a voluntary band tries to help children in Western Gouta in Damascus to forget their pain and hard circumstances they have faced during the war. The band...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Governor of Homs ordered to halt salaries of 2500 teachers in rebel-held areas of the war-torn province. The arbitrary decision issued under pressure of Syrian intelligence to increase the suffering of people...
The Uruguayan president Jose Mujica says he has received a million-dollar offer to buy his blue 1987 Volkswagen Beetle, which has become a symbol of his austere lifestyle. The man once nicknamed “the poorest president in the world” told the Uruguayan weekly Busqueda that an...
Each time a form of ISIS brutality becomes too consumed, the group puts out a display of greater ruthlessness. From the mass shooting of enemy captives at close range, beheadings of journalists and aid workers, stoning of woman and enslaving them for sexual use, ISIS’s latest...
(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces have blunted but not broken the siege of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a week after arriving to great fanfare with heavy weapons and fighters in a bid to save it from Islamic State. Kobani has become a test of the U.S.-led coalition's...
(Reuters) - Syrian activists shared a photo on social media on Friday of two children they said were killed in U.S. air strikes on Wednesday night which Washington said targeted an al Qaeda-linked militant faction. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki had no comment on...
(Reuters) - Palestinian protesters fought with Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Friday, the latest clashes in a fortnight of violence over access to Jerusalem's holiest site. At the Qalandia checkpoint separating Ramallah from Jerusalem,...
(Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council imposed targeted sanctions on Friday on Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and two senior Houthi rebel leaders for threatening the peace and stability of the country and obstructing the political process. Lithuanian U.N....
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq , roughly doubling the number of U.S. forces on the ground to advise and retrain Iraqis in their battle against the militant group Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Friday. Obama's...
By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Killing, abduction, robbery, violations, sexual harassments or exploitations committed by members of the National Defence Forces (NDF), the official name for “Shabiha”, did not target the...
(NOW)- The Islamic State (ISIS) has been battling Syrian state forces in Homs region for the past 10 days, pushing hard to acquire several natural gas fields and refineries, along with air bases and other military objectives. While the US-led coalition is busy watching the battle of...
