(Reuters) - Egypt will host talks between rival Palestinian factions within days, followed by indirect negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis on the ceasefire in Gaza, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday. The report quoted an Egyptian official as saying that...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Editing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Number of people with amputation in Syria reached to 25 thousand since 2011 according to medical statistics. Most amputations resulted from mines, cluster bombs, rockets and mortar...

BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Kurdish fighters raced from Turkey and Iraq into neighboring Syria on Saturday to defend a Kurdish area under attack by Islamic State militants. As the fighting raged, more than 60,000 mostly Kurdish refugees streamed across the dusty and barren border into...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Founder of rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Saturday said that planned U.S. airstrikes will eliminate Syrians’ revolution as it will strengthen Bashar al-Assad and his key ally, Iran. Syria's army defector Colonel Riad al-Asaad, who met with National Coalition’s...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Secretary General of Syrian National Coalition has refuted statements carried by veteran opposition figure, calling for joint government with Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Mr. Nasr al-Hariri, NC Secretary General,  said in statement...

BEIRUT ( The Daily Star ) : A Lebanese policeman pled for his life as he watched a fellow captive be executed with a gunshot to the head, in a video released by Nusra Front Saturday. The video showed soldier Mohammad Hammieh asking the Lebanese to put an end to...

Damascus, Sep 20 (IANS) Syrian forces Saturday started a wide-scale offensive on a key rebel-held Syrian city northeast of the capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Syrian Air Force carried out eight airstrikes on Adra and the nearby Tal Kurdi,...

(Reuters) - Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation. Security sources told...

(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey over the past day, fleeing an advance by Islamic State fighters who have seized dozens of villages close to the border, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Saturday. Turkey opened a...

By Dr. Awad Al-Sulaiman; Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- The United States and the West in general, are now certain that Sunni Muslims are the source of terrorism in the whole world, and therefore they are exerting great efforts in fighting Sunnis to combat...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle Islamic State militants who have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East. "The coalition required to...

By Lama Shammas and Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A joint campaign by Syrian activists in Idlib, Homs and Aleppo calling for judging the Interim Government over the spoiled vaccines that led death of dozens of children in Idlib countryside....

By Oliver Holmes and Alexandria Sage BAGHDAD/PARIS (Reuters) - French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target in Iraq for the first time on Friday, expanding a U.S.-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control...

(Al Jazeera)- The Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's wing in Syria, has killed one of ten Lebanese soldiers it had been holding in captivity, Lebanese security sources and a statement on Twitter said. The statement, posted on Friday by an account affiliated with the group, said the soldier had...

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region urged the international community on Friday to "use every means" to protect the city of Kobani in neighboring Syria from an impending attack by Islamic State militants. Islamic State fighters are...

By Lama Shammas;Ttranslation by Yusra Ahmed ISTANBUL(Zaman Al Wasl)- “Mercy” is the nickname of rain in Turkey, and this year, they wait for it to save them from Syrian beggars, who spread in many Turkish cities. Jam, a Shawerma shop owner has to leave his work...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 people from the same family have been killed near Qamishli city, northeast Syria, by Kurdish militant group, people of al-Matiniya village said they found their bodies buried in mass graveyard....

BAGHDAD (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, numerous civilizations have left their mark on upper Mesopotamia — from Assyrians and Akkadians to Babylonians and Romans. Their ancient, buried cities, palaces and temples packed with monumental art are scattered across what is now northern...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- 10 moderate rebel groups in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus have announce in video statement forming of ‘Nation Army’ as a new armed faction seeks to topple Basher al-Assad regime as well to protect civilians and cooperating...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10, 000 families in Yarmouk Refugee Camp near Damascus are facing the risk of death from thirst and epidemics if the water cut-off continues, Palestinian Association for Human Rights said after ten days of water shortage....