Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a super typhoon as a U.S. aircraft carrier "strike group" arrived to get supplies moving. While international relief efforts...
Islamist groups in northern Syria are weakening after months of fighting and Kurdish militias are gaining ground, a top Kurdish leader said on Wednesday, vowing to continue their advances. Saleh Muslim, head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Reuters...
Attacks against Shiites, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 39 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith. The bloodshed came as a flood of...
Hezbollah fighters are going to stay in Syria “as long as they are needed” by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces battling rebels, head of the Shiite movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said during his second appearance in public marking a Shiite religious occasion. “As long as the reasons (to fight...
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that the Syria issue was seriously affecting neighbouring Lebanon. In a report to the Security Council, he stated that 800,000 refugees have fled to Lebanon due to the ongoing war in Syria and this has...
A coalition member assured to Zaman Alwasl that the opposition Interim government to hold its first meeting today after 48 hours since its formation. Ahmed Salih Toumeh, the interim prime minister in a press conference held in Istanbul yesterday called on Syrian people to help...
Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported by...
Southern districts that have been under rebel control for more than a year are falling one by one, Damascus-based activist Rami al-Sayyed said to Reuters, referring to gains by Assad's forces around the capital. Zaman Alwasl sources assured that mass mobilization is taking...
Kurdish militias seized another seven villages in northeastern Syria , activists said on Wednesday, a day after the fighters' political wing announced an interim administration that aims to carve out an autonomous Syrian Kurdish region. Kurds, often described as the world's...
Al-Qaeda affiliated in Syria has released the first edition of its weekly newspaper. Sana al-Sham is 8-pages newspaper focuses on the main achievements of ISIL battles. In this edition the pro-al-Qaeda editor glorified the victory against the Northern Storm brigade in...
Zaman Alwas has obtained exclusively the minutes of the fifth meeting of the political committee of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. The meeting which was held between 29-31 October, has discussed many events, suggestions and...
The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant released a grisly video of two jihadists in Aleppo holding up the head of a man (Pictured L) they said was an Iraqi Shiite who had been fighting for the regime. The British-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory said the decapitated...
Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday. Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking...
Turkey to be the fifth fastest emerging country amongst top twenty world economies at the end of 2013, Moody's recently published report says. Turkey will be the fifth fastest emerging country amongst top twenty world economies at the end of 2013, Moody's recently...
Ahmed Salih Tuma, the new interim prime minister elected by the Syrian opposition held a press conference in Istanbul and called on Syrian people to help the government in its mission of bringing back the civilization and development to the country. Prime...
The main Syrian opposition alliance dubbed as "hostile" forces Wednesday Kurdish groups that control large swathes of the country's north after they proclaimed provisional self-rule. Kurdish militia, dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD),...
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured a suburb of Damascus on Wednesday, part of a broader advance that has brought him major gains south of the capital before proposed international peace talks, activists said. The fall of the rebel-held town of Hujaira, next to a...
The Syrian army advanced Wednesday on the Islamist-held northern village of Tal Hassel, a monitor said, as jihadist rebels in nearby Aleppo called for mass mobilisation to counter the offensive. Fighting raged at Tal Hassel, located about 12 kilometres (seven miles) from Aleppo, the...
The National Coalition denies responsibility for school books presents the former Head photos and speech. The National Coalition has denied any responsibility or connection to the distributing of school books in liberated areas in Syria, which content some...
The Syrian army has secured most of the area around Aleppo International Airport and could reopen the facility which fighting has kept closed for nearly a year, a military source said Monday. "All of the area southeast of the airport is in the hands of the army," the source told AFP,...
