DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — With security heightened in Damascus and thousands fearing rebel attacks in other cities, Syria holds an election Tuesday in the middle of its bloody civil war — a vote that President Bashar Assad is expected to win easily and that critics have denounced...

(Zaman Alwasl)- In statement issued Saturday, rebel and jihadist groups in Hama have announced the province a military zone by June 2, day before the planned presidential elections. The rebel factions of the famous war-torn city in the last century eighties, called for...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Main rebel groups in Deir Ezzor city pledged in statement issued Sunday to patronize each other as to avoid infighting and to have one command room to fight Bashar al-Assad's forces. Media activist, preferred anonymity, say to Z aman...

The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said. The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also...