An explosion targeting a crowd of worshippers on Tuesday, as they left a mosque in Iraq after prayers marking the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, killed 12 people, police and medical sources told Agence France-Presse. The blast at a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk,...
Washington may press Iran to import nuclear fuel rather than make it, an official said as talks to end the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program were to begin. “We are prepared to talk about what President Obama said in his address at the U.N. General Assembly...
None of Syria’s chemical weapons sites are under rebel control, the key opposition National Coalition said on Tuesday, according to AFP. The assertion came after the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said one abandoned site was in a rebel-held area and that...
Syria’s first lady Asma al-Assad laughed off claims she has fled the war-hit country in footage broadcast on Tuesday, saying she was standing by her embattled husband President Bashar al-Assad. The British-educated Asma has rarely appeared in public since the beginning of the conflict...
The press office of the Islamic Ahrar al-Sham movement based in the countryside of Aleppo, released footage on social media showed its fighters celebrating with the children in the first day of Muslim holy Eid, AL-Adha . Analysts said that the Islamic movement is very pragmatic...
Fierce clashes erupted early today near Turkish crossing border between rebels and al-Qaeda affiliate group at the first day of Muslims 'Adhha' Eid, sources told Zaman Alwasl . Norht Storm, rebel brigade who oppose the ISIS jihadists were collected their forces at the Bab...
Shaqlawa Mohammed Rashid sits at the entrance of a white tent in a refugee camp in northern Iraq, reflecting on what will be her first Eid al-Adha holiday outside Syria. The 16-year-old girl smiles at her mother Barshan, who sits next to her on a...
Pressure intensified on Syrian rebels on Monday to permit access to chemical weapons sites in areas under their control, as officials said the rapidly shifting lines in the civil war made it difficult for inspectors to reach some locations and called for all parties to ease the process...
Education is the orphan of any war. This is particularly true in Syria, where brutal violence has spilled over onto university campuses, with tragic bombings this year at the University of Aleppo and the University of Damascus. Students and professors have been...
Mentally scarred by the turmoil at home after two and half years of civil war, Syria’s national football team are hoping continued success on the pitch can give their compatriots small reason to cheer. Syria, who beat Iraq to win the West Asian Championships for...
We are facing one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent decades, if not the worst since the Balkans war and Rwanda. Syria is becoming a field of ruins with millions of people, mainly women and children, affected. According to the latest gruesome statistics , more than 115,000 people...
The Syrian conflict is "devastating" the lives of Palestinian refugees in the country, a UN agency said Monday, after weekend shelling of a Palestinian camp in the southern province of Daraa. "Initial reports indicate the (Daraa) Palestine refugee camp was...
The president of Syria has said that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a comment likely to raise eyebrows around the world. Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria , has joked that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize after it was awarded to the international weapons...
Shortly before its operatives killed 14 Iraqi Shiite children in a school bombing this month, the group once known as al-Qaeda in Iraq sent guerrillas into northern Syrian villages with orders to reopen local Sunni classrooms. In a series of early fall visits, the militants handed out religious...
The discovery of a secret tunnel from the Gaza Strip into Israel has prompted the Israeli government to order an immediate halt of all construction materials to Gaza. The Israeli military found the mile-long underground passage running between a home in a Hamas-controlled area, and a...
The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has reported that a ship carrying hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees who fled from Syria drowned in the Mediterranean close to Libyan shores after coming under fire from Libyan side on Friday. The Palestinian...
The head of the United Nations on Sunday named Sigrid Kaag to lead the UN’s joint mission with the chemical weapons watchdog tasked with eliminating Syria’s arsenal, diplomats said. The UN Security Council, which is set to vote on Kaag’s nomination Wednesday, has formally...
Officials have said a Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteer and three of six Red Cross staffers taken hostage in Syria are free and safe. Robert Mardini, the International Committee of the Red Cross' head of operations for the Middle East, said on Twitter that the four were released "safe and...
A British girls student initiative has saved hundreds of Syrian Student from being expelled from UK Universities. through her petition on Avaaz organisation , the community website which enables users to create petitions, The Story...
The message came from an unknown sender shortly after Iskandar's daughter disappeared. She had been missing three days when it arrived, taken while en route to the airport in the capital Damascus. "We have your daughter Judy. We will tell you a time and place to bring the money," the...
