Syrian rebels, including the main Islamist factions, said Monday the creation of a caliphate by the Islamic State (IS) was "null and void". "We see that the announcement by the rejectionists of a caliphate is null and void, legally and logically," the groups said in a statement,...

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(AFP)- The Syrian government signed a deal with a Russian firm Monday for the first phase of an irrigation project for the drought-hit northeast of the war-torn country, state media said. The project, which had been planned before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Monday against stepping up support for Syria's opposition, saying it would only bolster a caliphate declared by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in part of Iraq and Syria. Baghdad called for international...

      (Zaman Alwasl) – Wife of the first Syrian Army defectors denied opposition claims over allocating a monthly salary for her displaced family. Ghufran Hijazi wife of Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush, who still in Syrian regime’s...

(Reuters) - Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq , a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot...

An airstrike in the northern Syrian province of Idlib killed 30 people, including 3 children, on Sunday as Regime’s helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held town of Salqeen, activist said. The attack struck the town main market at sunset while people...

BEIRUT (AP) — Up to 7,000 people, mostly rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad, have been killed in infighting among rival Islamic groups in Syria across opposition-held territory in the north, an activist group said in a report Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A car bomb exploded in a busy market in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding dozens as Muslims went shopping a day before the start of their holy month of Ramadan, activists said. The blast in Douma...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamist rebels waged a counter-offensive in Syria's border town of Albu Kamal on Saturday, challenging the grip of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which has seized large areas on each side of the crumbling Iraqi-Syrian frontier. Earlier...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) THE Local Council in Rastan, appealed to all aid & relief and humanitarian agencies to help Rastan and break the siege forced on the town by the regime, as Homs Council had disconnected all...

(AFP)- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Friday executed and crucified one of its own men for corruption in Syria, a watchdog and jihadist sites said. Photographs posted on websites showed the body and bloodied head of a bearded man with a placard reading: “Guilty: Abu...

Damascus, June 27 (IANS) Syrian troops and armed rebels in a central Syrian district have agreed on a truce during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, media reported Friday. The truce in al-Waer district, the last remaining rebel-held area inside the city of Homs, has gone into...

Syrian opposition leader Friday said the Interim Government's decision to dissolve the Supreme Military Council is void since it’s out of the government powers. Both Ahmad Jarba and SMC commanders have denounced Ahmad Tumah’s decision to dissolve the...

  Russia's U.N. ambassador said Thursday there is a real prospect of a terrorist state springing up from Syria's second-largest city Aleppo to Iraq's capital Baghdad. Vitaly Churkin pointed to the rapid advance of al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists from...

  Journalist Nasr al-Hourani, reporter of SMART News in Daraa, has been killed of his wounds on Thursday when was covering the battles of southern province, activists said. At least 70 Syrian Journalist and media...

The Supreme Military Council of Free Syrian Army in statement issued Friday denounced Interim Government's decision to dissolve the Council and to refer its members to the administration and financial committee, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the conflicts in Syria and Iraq becoming increasingly intertwined against the same Sunni extremist group, President Barack Obama moved on Thursday to ratchet up U.S. efforts to strengthen more moderate Syrian rebels. Obama's request to Congress for $500...

  Opposition Interim Government decided to dissolve the Supreme Military Council and to refer its members to the administrative and financial monitoring commission, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. Prime Minister Ahmad Tu’mah also ordered the...

(Al Arabiya News)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “never” thought about resigning or making concessions, especially to the foreign-based opposition, former U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday....