Writing by Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Compensation of S.P 2 million ($10 thousand) for each child died as a result of measles vaccination in Idlib last September is about to be agreed with children’s parents to...
RIGA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he had been informed that agreement was reached for 200 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to pass through Turkey to help defend the Syrian border town of Kobani against Islamic State militants....
The army has shrunk by nearly half since Syria's conflict erupted in 2011 but experts say the remaining military force is now both more flexible and capable. It has transformed itself from a traditional military built on the former Soviet model into an effective...
(Reuters) - Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 553 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria , a monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the vast majority of the...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced 27 people to prison for planning a series of attacks against U.S. forces in Qatar and Kuwait, with more than half of the defendants charged on Wednesday with also trying to join forces with a group in Syria to smuggle...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad has replaced five provincial governors, including some overseeing regions that include major fronts in Syria's civil war, state media said on Wednesday. The state news agency said Assad had shuffled governors of...
Writing by Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-Syrian doctors leave the country to work abroad, in September only, around 150 doctors of Medicine left Syria to work in Gulf countries and Europe, local medical sources revealed ....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The latest news of Syrian Opposition’s National Coalition, is the salaries of its leader and other workers. According to draft issued by NC secretary general, Nasr al-Hariri, the leader will get $3000 while his deputies and senior...
(Zaman Al Wasl) – Violent clashes still ongoing between Syrian regime forces and the Islamic battalions in the farmlands of Kerdi Hill near the city of Douma, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. In his turn,...
(AFP)- Five young Britons a week are travelling to fight in Syria alongside jihadists, joining hundreds already thought to have left, the country’s most senior policeman has disclosed. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said “the drumbeat...
Syria's armed forces, including its aircraft, have been providing military support to Kurdish fighters defending the town of Kobane besieged by jihadists, the information minister said. "The state with its military forces and planes has been providing military and logistical...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian air force has destroyed two of three jets seized and reportedly test flown over Aleppo by the Islamic State group last week, according to the country's information minister. Omran al-Zoubi told Syrian TV late Tuesday that Syrian aircraft bombed...
Iraq's Kurdish regional parliament will hold a session on Wednesday to vote on deploying peshmerga security forces to aid Syrian Kurds battling jihadists from the Islamic State group, a senior lawmaker said. The planned vote raises the possibility that the three-province...
A Syrian woman academic who taught jurisprudence and Islamic economics at Dammam University has joined the IS radical group, which is also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to recent local media reports. Eman Mustafa Al-Bugga reportedly stated on Twitter that...
(Writing by Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The nightmare of indiscriminate recruiting for mandatory and reserve military service has been circulating around Syria within few days. Regime started procedures of...
(Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it was authorizing spy planes and armed drones to fly surveillance missions over Syria "very shortly" in order to gather intelligence on Islamic State (IS) militants. Britain announced the deployment after Turkey said on Monday it would allow...
(Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed Western powers on Tuesday for the rise of Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Iraq and Syria and said they had no business tampering with the region's geopolitics. Iran and the United States have been...
(Reuters) - In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria’s border town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have for longer been engulfing another strategically more vital target - Iraq’s western Anbar province and its road to Baghdad. The...
(Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that using only military means to fight the threat of Islamic State in Syria could radicalize more Sunni armed groups and spark greater violence. "Our long-term strategic objective in Syria remains a...
(Reuters) - The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 air strikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere. The intensified strikes by...
