An Alawite village in the central province of Hama was seized by Islamist fighters on Sunday, Reuters news agency reported, adding that the fighting was “part of an offensive to try to cut off supply routes from Damascus to the north of the country.” The fighters,...

  This is the third part of a series of audio addresses made by Abu Jihad Shishani, the second-in-command to Umar Shishani of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham. See  Syria: Umar Shishani’s Second-in-Command in ISIS Slams Scholars Who “Sow Discord”...

Islamist rebels warned Sunday in a statement,  obtained by Zaman Alwasl,  of an empty-handed participation in Geneva II,   in hint to get concrete guarantees from Assad’s regime as release the detainees and halt barrel bombs. The statement of Al...

At a closed door meeting, Western governments led by the United States took Syria to task for failing to surrender its chemical weapons under ambitious deadlines agreed with Russia after a poison gas attack in August. Speaker after speaker stood up to berate Damascus at the Organisation for...