Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Alwasl)- 5 people will be executed over allegations of committing crimes, robbery and looting in al-Waer neighborhood in Homs this week, according to a joint statement by key rebel groups in Homs. Al-Nusra...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State, the al Qaeda splinter group which has seized parts of Syria and Iraq, has told activists in Syria's Deir al-Zor province they must swear allegiance to it and submit to censorship, a monitoring group said on Friday. The militant group imposed...
By Al Hussein Al Shishakli; Translation by Dani Murad A document obtained by Zaman Alwasl confirmed a meeting that took place between the Vice President of the interim government, Iyad Qudsi and an important political figure who until today is...
Al Jazeera- The powerful Islamic State group has reportedly withdrawn from several villages dominated by a Sunni tribe in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province after clashes with tribal fighters. Fighters of the self-declared jihadist group were pushed out from Abu Hamam,...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel bombarded the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Saturday as troops searched for an officer they believe was captured by Hamas in an ambush that shattered a humanitarian cease-fire and set the stage for a major escalation of the 26-day-old war. The...
By Al Hussein Al Shishakli; Translation by Dani Murad One million dollars is the cost of printing textbooks distributed by the dismissed "Syrian Interim Government" on schools supervised by the "National Coalition”, which was spent in the period between 10 – 11- 2013 and 6 -...
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz urged religious leaders on Friday to take a united stance against “terrorists” trying to “highjack” Islam and denounced the international community’s “indifference” to what he described were “war crimes” being committed in the Gaza Strip. The...
The Syrian refugee woman huddled in the latest room she calls home, a peeling, run-down place outside a north Lebanese village. The mother of six doesn’t know how she’ll pay the rent. She's gotten by over the past year by taking a series of lovers who would pay for her housing....
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Hezbollah commander has died during a mission in Iraq, sources familiar with the incident said on Wednesday, indicating the Lebanese group that is already fighting in Syria's civil war may be involved in a second conflict in the region. Hezbollah, an...
Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Alwasl)- An urgent humanitarian appeal was called for by a group of Syrian activists in Lebanon to all "civil society organizations, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Security Council, the states supporting democracy and...
(Vatican Radio) The family of Italian Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio have appealed to those responsible for his kidnapping one year ago in Syria to release him or give them news about his fate. 59 year old Father Dall’Oglio went missing on July 29, 2013 in Raqqa in the...
(Reuters) - A Gaza ceasefire crumbled only hours after it began on Friday, with at least 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli shelling and Israel accusing militants of violating the U.S.- and U.N.-brokered truce by firing rockets and mortars. The 72-hour break announced by...
(Translation by Dani Murad) EQTSAD- Deep concerns and warnings have been raised among the activists, journalists and interested observers over the suspicious activity of Assad’s sleeping cells among Syrians in Turkey, which aim to incite the Turkish...
A Syrian military defector who leaked thousands of photographs documenting years of torture and death at the hands of the Assad regime briefed the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday, marking his first appearance at a public setting. There are...
World Bulletin - At least 116 people were killed by government forces in fighting across Syria during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, opposition activists have said. The deaths included 21 children and 16 women, according to the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights....
A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for renouncing Islam then acquitted after international pressure on Khartoum, on Thursday left Italy for the United States with her family. Meriam Ibrahim Tehya Ishag, who met Pope Francis during her eight-day stopover in Italy,...
The U.N. Security Council is condemning the offensive waged by the extremist Islamic State group and allied militants in Iraq, calling it "a major threat" to the country's future. The council stressed in a resolution adopted unanimously Wednesday extending the U.N. political...
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(Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite militias have drawn up hit lists of suspected Sunni insurgents to be kidnapped, executed and hung in public, security and police officials said, raising the stakes in a sectarian war tearing the country apart. The militias became a vital line of...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel will destroy the Hamas tunnel network in the Gaza Strip "with or without a cease-fire," as the military called up another 16,000 reservists to pursue its campaign in the densely-populated territory....
