(Zaman Alwasl)- At least 30.000 people fled towns captured by the Islamic State (IS) near the Syrian- Iraqi borders, a monitoring group said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said thousands of people have fled the...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Activists from Homs have broadcasted a new series on Youtube called “Homsi Daily Life” which talks in comedian way, about life in Homs and suffering people and activists undergo in their daily lives. The first...
ALEPPO (Zaman Alwasl)- Opposition activists say Syrian regime army has not taken control of Tal Sha'eer village near the infantry school in Aleppo. A rebel commander, in footage posted online, said fighters of al-Tawhid brigade still controlling the...
(Translation by Dani Murad) As the battle for the Qalamoun region still raging, regime forces bombarded two days ago the village of "Bassima" in Damascus countryside with explosive barrels and mortar shells, meanwhile the machine guns of the...
(Reporting by Zeina Al Chofi; translation by Yusra Ahmed) Celebration in Yamouk after the agreement on exclusion Palestinian camp from the Syrian conflict, has not yet started to go in vane again after declaring that the agreement would not...
(Reuters)- At least four people were killed and seven wounded in overnight air raids by Syrian forces on mountains and valleys near the Lebanese town of Arsal, security sources said on Friday, the latest spillover of violence into the border area. The five air raids struck close to...
Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan circulated a draft resolution to the 15-member U.N. Security Council on Thursday that seeks to boost cross-border humanitarian access in Syria but it was not immediately clear if Russia and China would support the move. After more than a month of...
Translation by Dani Murad The leadership of “Yarmouk” Brigade has confirmed the kidnapping of Moussa al-Zoubi, the Chief of Staff of al Yarmouk Brigade in “Nasib” town, located on the Jordanian and Syrian borders. al Yarmouk , which is one...
(AFP)- Women have been the victims of arbitrary arrest, torture, harassment and discrimination at the hands of government and rebel forces in Syria's three-year conflict, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The New York-based global rights watchdog, in a report, urged the...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Unknown armed group has kidnapped Captain Basil Zammo near Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, source told Zaman Alwasl. The senior rebel commander in coastal area was heading Turkey in logistic tour. A day ago,...
BEIRUT (AFP) - The jihadist Islamic State (IS) has taken over a string of towns and cities in Syria's oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor and now also controls most of the countryside, a monitor said Thursday. The province, which abuts Iraq, forms part of the IS's...
(Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusar Ahmed) Opposition’s fighting battalions arrested in Jobar front a Syrian young man called Rami al-Sha’ar, from Salihiya neighborhood in Damascus, during his fighting with Aba al-Fadel al-Abbas militia,...
GIOIA TAURO, Italy (AP) — Cargo containers carrying hundreds of tons of Syrian chemical weapons were loaded onto a U.S. cargo ship Wednesday for destruction at sea, one of the final phases of the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapon stockpile. The chemicals had...
Reporting by Faris Al Rfai; Translation by Dani Murad With the largest poster for the Syrian revolution ever made, Tamer Turkmani, a 24 years old young man, created a panoramic poster that features pictures of 50 thousand martyrs, including...
(Reporting by Ahmad Primo and Al Hussein Al Shishakli) (Zaman Alwasl)- Former Syrian Prime Minister announced he would not run for the National Coalition elections planned this week since he had not find the consensus amid the key opposition group,...
BEIRUT (AP) — The al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captured a key Syrian town near the Iraq border from other rebels on Tuesday and advanced toward a stronghold of its main jihadi rivals, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of the al Qaeda offshoot now calling itself the Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to the "caliphate" it has declared on captured Syrian and Iraqi soil. Proclaiming a "new era" in which Muslims will ultimately...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Islam Army, main unit of the Islamic Front, Tuesday expelled militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria from al-Marj suburbs in the Eastern Ghouta, rebel source told Zaman Alwasl. Islam Army took control of Mayda’a...
BEIRUT (AP) — The al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captured a key Syrian town near the Iraq border from other rebels on Tuesday and advanced toward a stronghold of its main jihadi rivals, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...
GIOIA TAURO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. ship MV Cape Ray arrived Tuesday in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro for the unprecedented transfer and destruction of about 1,300 tons of Syrian chemical weapons. The 648-foot (197.5-meter) U.S. government cargo ship has been fitted...
