(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jawad Abu Hatab, the Prime Minister of the Syrian Interim Government and the acting Defense Minister has appointed Col. Abdul Jabbar al-Ukaidi as his deputy, according to a statement issued on Monday.   The prominent commander in the Free Syrian Army was appointed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three men charged with killing seven Civil Defense workers in August were executed on Monday in northern Idlib province, local activists said. The armed attackers on August 12 stormed an office of the Syrian paramedic group in the town of Sarmin, killing seven...

 Veteran prosecutor Carla del Ponte signed off from the United Nations Syria investigation on Monday by criticizing the U.N. Security Council and telling Syria’s ambassador his government had used chemical weapons. The former Swiss attorney general, who went on to prosecute war...

Opposition activists say Syrian government troops battling Daesh (ISIS) have crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Deir al-Zor for the first time since they broke a siege on parts of the eastern city earlier this month. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...