US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of breaking the terms of a global pact on chemical weapons by unleashing chlorine gas this year. Despite having promised to hand over all of Syria's chemical arms to be destroyed, "we believe...

PARIS (Reuters) - France will not carry out military action against Islamic State militants in Syria, but will soon begin air strikes to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Iraq, President Francois Hollande said on Thursday. "I have decided to respond positively to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels have made sudden advances inside Damascus, pounding Bashar al-Assad’s forces in al-Doukhaniya and al-Qabbas neighborhoods, activists said. The general command of rebels in Eastern Ghouta suburbs said in statement posted online...

Writing to Zaman English by Dani Murad (Zaman al-Wasl)- After the devastating explosion in North-eastern Syria last week, which killed a dozen of the most important senior figures in the armed opposition, a Syrian rebel group Ahrar al Sham Movement has...