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( BBC )- Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria and another rebel group have taken control of a key military base in the northern province of Idlib, activists say. Members of al-Nusra Front, supported by those from Jund al-Aqsa, captured Wadi al-Deif base after launching a fierce...
(By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many military formations of the “Southern Front” in the south of Syrian have signed “the defence Treaty” in an attempt to face the coming step. Dr. Ibrahim al-Jebawi, the...
(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- Syria's regime army seized an area north of Aleppo on Sunday and killed insurgents in battles for the strategic territory, Reuters reported. Syria's second city is at the heart of a fierce battle between pro-government forces...
(Zaman Al Wasl Photo)- Syrians suffer of expired passports, can extend the date of expiration by Syrian Opposition with the same stickers regime have, senior official said. The good news carried by National Coalition’s Embassy in Doha will end suffering of thousands...
(Al Arabiya News)- Syria’s Hazem Sharif was crowned on Saturday Arab Idol 2014, the most watched show in the Middle East, beating off his two rivals Palestinian Haitham Khalailah and Majid Al Madani from Saudi Arabia. Judges Ahlam, from the United...
DAMASCUS: A senior U.N. official arrived in Syria Saturday for talks on a plan to suspend fighting between government and rebel forces in the country's second city Aleppo. Ramzi Ezzedine Ramzi, deputy to the U..N envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is to hold a series of meetings in...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Coalition’s Ambassador to Doha, Nizar al-Hiraki, ended the controversy about renewing Syrian passports, as he confirmed that Syrian passports' renewal would take place in the Embassy and...
(Reuters) - Islamic State's self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated four men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday. The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the militant...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State has carried out the punishment of Al-Rajem “Stoning to death” on charge of “adultery” against married man and woman on the outskirts of Manbej city in the Northern Eastern countryside of...
Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Interim Prime Minister, Ahmed Tomeh, confirms that legal renewal stickers are available in the Coalition’s Embassy in Doha, as those stickers are recognized by the...
ARSAL, Lebanon: The sister-in-law of ISIS commander Anas Sharkas, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Ali al-Shishani, has been arrested in the Bekaa Valley, her husband told The Daily Star Friday. Mohammad Sharkas, brother of Abu Ali al-Shishani, told The Daily Star that...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels using improvised mortar bombs made of cooking gas canisters killed 311 civilians between July and December this year, a monitoring group said on Friday, condemning the use of the wildly inaccurate weapons. Two-thirds of the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies carried out 27 airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in the past three days, U.S. military officials said on Friday. Fighting positions, buildings and fortifications were hit in seven attacks...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have circulated online video showing how Syrian rebels and Islamist battalions stormed regime bases in the embattled town of Daraya west Damascus during this week, taking control on few points after violent...
Germany has announced it is considering sending around 100 soldiers to northern Iraq to train peshmerga forces who are fighting the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told journalists at the Federal...
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The training of moderate Syrian forces to fight against ISIL terrorists will begin next March, a U.S. official said Thursday. Brett H. McGurk, a deputy envoy to the U.S.-led anti -ISIL coalition, testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee that...
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The Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday posted photographs appearing to show jihadists throw a "gay" off a rooftop and then stoning him to death. "The Islamic court in Wilayet al-Furat decided that a man who has practised sodomy must be thrown off the highest...
