Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Conference of Syria’s opposition factions in Cairo this Saturday identified a 10-point vision outlining the future opposition’s meetings, while the National Coalition has not...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Syrian rebels on Sunday have captured strategic Sheikh Miskeen town south the war-torn country after months of heavy fighting with forces loyal to Basher al-Assad, activists said. The fighters of Southern Front have taken...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army group on Sunday has pounded Syrian regime strongholds in Damascus by rockets and mortar fire, five people killed, activists say. Zaharan Alloush, the commander of the Islamist faction which controls Eastern Ghouta...

Report by Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR)   Introduction The first extremist foreign militias to emerge in Syria were’t Daesh or An-Nussra Front where months before their emergence, non-Arabic fighters appeared in Syria....

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Hasakah (Zaman Al Wasl)- Democratic Union Party “PYD” has arrested 500 youth in Malikiah, Eastern Hasakah within two days, as a part of the mandatory military recruiting in their battalions....

(AFP)- Syria’s opposition factions called Saturday for “radical democratic change” in the war-torn country ahead of April talks aimed at unifying their plan for a political solution to the conflict. In a two-day conference held in Cairo, the...

(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the first group of about 100 U.S. troops to head to the Middle East in the next few days to establish training sites for Syrian opposition fighters battling Islamic State militants, the Pentagon said on Friday. Admiral...

(Reuters) - Fighting broke out between Lebanese troops and gunmen on Friday in an area that has seen repeated incursions by Islamist militants fighting in Syria's war, the Lebanese army said in a statement. It said a large number of gunmen had been killed and a number of...

UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon painted a worsening picture of the war in Syria, citing widespread conflict, indiscriminate government bombing, opposition shelling, high civilian casualties and deteriorating humanitarian conditions. In...

ِThe death toll of the Syrian regime air strike on Hamoria village near Damascus has topped 65, opposition activists said on Friday . Syrian government officials were not immediately available to comment on the reported attack in Hamoria, a district in the Eastern Ghouta...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of Syria’s capital have threatened to breach the cease-fire truce if the siege would be continue on the southern suburbs of Damascus. Jihadist Shura Council, rebel group, demanded Syrian regime to open Babbila crossing and to let aid and basic food...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Coalition member warned West-backed group of the ongoing meeting of the main Syrian opposition factions in Cairo, saying there is plan to open all the roads needed for the rehabilitation of the ‘Butcher of Syria’ again after all the crimes committed against the...

(Reuters) - U.S.-led forces attacked Islamic State targets with 21 air strikes in Iraq and 10 in Syria since Wednesday, the American military said. Sixteen of the air strikes in Iraq were centered around Mosul, where they hit tactical units, vehicles, bridges, artillery systems...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent activist and former member of the National Coalition, has rebuked the key opposition group over irresponsible promises to renew expired passport, saying Coalition...

Cairo,  Asharq Al-Awsat —Representatives of the main Syrian opposition factions will be meeting in Cairo between Thursday and Saturday in an attempt to agree on common positions ahead of talks on the Syria conflict in Moscow set to begin later this month. The Egyptian Council for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs, in statement issued on Wednesday, insisted on the planned truce with Syrian regime to open a humanitarian corridor to the Town of Erbin, accusing the Nusra Front of hindering the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday killed at least 12 civilians , including two women and one child, near al-Hola town in the northwest of Homs city, activists said. The air force carried out four air strikes on the villages of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad forces on Wednesday held captive by rebels in Handarat district of Aleppo, activists say . Ibrahim al-Khatib, media activist, said ‘Failaq al-Sham’ rebel group have arrested four fighters,...

  (AFP)- A car bomb on a shopping street in Syria's government-controlled third city of Homs killed seven people and wounded 30 on Wednesday, the provincial governor told AFP. It was the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting the Akrameh...

Tokyo (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was rushing home from the Middle East Wednesday to take charge of Tokyo's response to Islamic militants threatening to kill two nationals unless he pays a $200 million ransom. A defiant Abe vowed he would not bow to "terrorism", as...