(Zaman Alwasl)- Al-Qaeda renegade group took control of Al-Rabiea’ town and its crossing border with Iraq after fierce clashes with the Iraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga units on Tuesday, Zaman Alwasl correspondent reported. Several Iraqi army...
(Zaman Alwasl)- The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) declared, in statement issued Tuesday, readiness to fight with Iraqi Army and Peshmerga against Al-Qaeda renegade group in northern Iraq. The armed wing of the Democratic Union Party in...
(By Al Hussein Al Shishakli- Special to Zaman Alwasl) A prominent Muslim Brotherhood figure quitted Syrian National Coalition in protest against congratulating Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on his inauguration as president of Egypt by the opposition leader...
The International Committee of the Red Cross and Syria's Red Crescent have made rare aid deliveries in rebel-held territory in northern Aleppo province with government consent, a spokesman said Monday. "Together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), we were able to deliver...
Iraqi authorities declared a state of emergency in Mosul on Tuesday after the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) took control of the city, while army troops withdrew from their central base, an Al Arabiya News Channel correspondent reported on Tuesday....
The Interim Government has not refused to allocate salaries to the families of Civil Defence martyrs in Aleppo, an opposition senior official told Zaman Alwasl . The official says the government is in process of issuing a new law to guarantee the rights of...
The decision by Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group to join the civil war in neighboring Syria and fight along President Bashar Assad's forces was a historic and moral "mistake" toward the Syrian people, a leading Lebanese politician has said. The harsh criticism by Walid...
The results are in and Bashar al-Assad has won his third seven-year term as president of Syria with a score of 88.7 percent of the votes . That’s a modest figure by the standards of Syria’s ruling family, which in forty-four years has never before settled for less...
(Al Arabiya News)- Egyptian police have arrested seven men for sexually assaulting women at celebrations marking President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s inauguration, after outrage sparked by a graphic video of the attacks which circulated on social networks....
Iran and Turkey on Monday pledged to work together to stop extremism and bloodshed in the Middle East despite their deep differences over Syria's civil war. "Iran and Turkey, the two important countries in the region, are determined to fight against extremism and terrorism,"...
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(By Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Reuters coverage of the Syrian Presidential election has drawn attention to the extent of mistakes, unclear and superficial dealing with events and Syrian revolution, accompanied with ignorance and...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Bashar Assad declared a general amnesty Monday for prisoners in the country, state media reported, less than a week after he was re-elected to another seven-year term amid a bloody civil war. It was not clear how many — if any — prisoners would be freed by...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese parliamentarians failed on Monday in their sixth attempt to elect a new president, extending the political vacuum that emerged when former President Michel Suleiman's term ended two weeks ago. The deadlock comes as the spillover from neighboring...
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say rebel infighting in Syria has killed 45 opposition fighters over the past two days. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the fighting flared up in eastern Deir el-Zour province on Sunday and continued into Monday. The Observatory...
Writing by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad In a rare document, regime’s ministry of interior has admitted the reality-based situation in Syria, which underlines regime's huge loss of sovereignty and land under the name of "the shrinking of...
ALEPPO (The Daily Star)- At least 40 people, including women and children, were killed during operations allegedly carried out across Syria Sunday by forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar Assad, according to opposition activists. Air and land operations involving heavy...
The scale of the Syrian tragedy is immense. The story is often reduced to numbers: deaths, refugees, sick and wounded. Behind these figures are real people. Rabab Sabbagh, an early revolutionary from Homs, is relatively privileged; she has a job and lives in a proper...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said Sunday that the recent Syrian presidential election paved way for the postwar phase as he reiterated the call to elect a Lebanese president as soon as possible. “The Syrian presidential election lays the foundation...
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