By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed DAMASCUS (Zaman Al Wasl)- The severe siege on Eastern Ghouta in Damascus has reached to unbearable levels, and disturbance on many level. As a reaction, people sometimes demonstrated against monopoly, while...

(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)- Dozens of employees of the Local Council in the city of Aleppo had staged a sit- in   protesting on the obstruction of the Interim government to the local council mission in the city of Aleppo because of delaying to pay the salaries of...

Facebook administration has removed the official page of Zaman Al Wasl Arabic for the third time, saying its logo “ is not compatible with the Facebook community.” The blocked-page is a 3-year-old with more than 143 ,000 followers....

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government has agreed "in principle" to the U.N. envoy's call for local cease-fires to try to ease the worst fighting in the country's civil war but needs more details before it can make a final decision, a Syrian official said Monday. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Families of the 18 regime army troops, who were beheaded by the Islamic State group according to video posted online on Sunday, have mourned their sons in their hometowns. The propaganda of terror carrying by ISIS had tended to show the faces of slain soldiers very...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Turkey backs the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Turkish foreign minister said on Monday. "We have no hesitation on the removal of Assad," Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a live TV interview. CNN reported on...

Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Homs’s traders suffer of “Shabiha” and their practices, especially for those who want to re-open their shops in Dablan, due to the pressure from regime and Municipality....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl exclusively publishes the special report of the Free Syrian Judicial Council over the killing of 36 children last September after receiving tainted measles vaccines under a UN-sponsored programme in the rebel-held north of Syria....

  (Zaman Al Wasl-Special) – 14 members of   the Syrian National Coalition to announce forming a new political bloc next week, carrying the aim of reviving the national role of the key opposition group what may serve the people and the revolution,...

n">(Reuters) - U.S. aid worker and Indiana native Peter Kassig, beheaded by Islamic State militants who captured him in Syria last year, was remembered on Sunday for his courageous devotion to helping people whose lives were upended by civil war. President Barack Obama...

(AFP)- The US-led coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group carried out a series of air strikes overnight in the embattled Syrian town of Kobane, a monitor and activists said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported intensifying clashes between...

A lack of funding and war in Syria and Iraq has stalled progress towards eliminating measles, with deaths from the disease rising in recent years, the World Health Organization has warned. Speaking in Geneva on Thursday, WHO expert Robert Perry said: "The big area of concern...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The clashes between Islam Army and Ahrar al-Sham movement have been renewed on Sunday near Bab al-Hawa, the strategic border crossing of with Turkey, activists said.  Islam Army spokesman, captain Islam Alloush,...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed in a video posted online on Sunday that they had beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig. The video did not show the beheading but showed a masked man standing with a decapitated head covered in blood...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists on Saturday have commemorated the first anniversary of Abdul Qadir Saleh’s death, the leader of Liwa al-Tawhid who died of wounds he sustained in an air strike on a rebel-held air base in Aleppo last year....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the West for not reacting to the critical situation in Aleppo, which he says is Syria's most important city, on Saturday. Speaking at the Latin American Muslim Leaders Religious Summit in Istanbul, Erdogan said:...

(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and local affiliates as terrorist groups, state news agency WAM reported on Saturday citing a cabinet decree. The Gulf Arab state has also designated Nusra Front and the Islamic State, whose...

(BBC)- Millions of YouTube viewers have been captivated by the ' Syrian hero boy ' who manages to rescue a little girl while under gunfire. Now a group of Norwegian filmmakers have told BBC Trending they are behind it. They say it was filmed on location in Malta this summer with the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have recaptured on Friday two villages in Idlib province without any resistance by Islamist rebels, activists said. Local activists assured that Bashar al-Assad’s forces have gained the advantages of...

(CNN) -- ISIS is planning to mint its own currency in gold, silver and copper, the group said Thursday. Its aim is to stay away from the "tyrant's financial system," ISIS said in a statement. It said it would issue another statement to explain the new currency's exchange rate,...