(Reuters) - An attack from inside Syria on Sunday killed a 13-year-old Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights, the first fatality on Israel's side of the frontier since the Syrian civil war began, relatives and the military said. Israeli tanks fired at Syrian army...

(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Dani Murad) Local sources informed Zaman Alwasl that 325 students left the city of Jaramana, early Friday heading to their hometowns in Eastern Ghouta, after they completed high school exams in all of...

By Kamal Namaa ANBAR, IRAQ(Reuters) - Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The...

The security vacuum in the Middle East that has allowed an extremist group to advance through regions of Iraq and Syria would have opened up regardless of whether the United States had decided last year to back moderate rebel forces in war-torn Syria, President Obama said during...

  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army has carried out a series of airstrikes against a town in eastern Syria that was captured by fighters from an al-Qaida breakaway group a day earlier, killing 16 people, activists said Saturday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

Airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 4 people on Saturday as helicopter gunships pounded rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said. Early today, 3 people have been killed in Deir Jammal village in Aleppo countryside and one other killed Kallaseh neighborhood....

  In his first appearance at an Iraqi Shi’ite channel since coming back home from Syria, a militia commander Abu Shad al-Jobouri threatened to crush rebels fighting Nouri al-Maliki. Photos of Al-Jobouri in Baghdad, who committed crime against...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — A group of Syrian refugees, all former professional soccer players and members of the national youth team in the war-wrecked country, came together in neighboring Lebanon over the past year to execute an ambitious task: Form an opposition team in exile that...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) In his comment on the death of Alma Shahhod, one of the most bright icons of Syrian revolution, Zaman Alwasl’s Editor In-Chief, Fathi Bayoud, said: “Ahmad jarba and the coalition must resign from the political work and...

The Opposition Democratic Bloc agreed on Mouaffaq Nyrabia to bid planned Coalition elections next July to succeed Ahmad Jarba , source said. Nyrabia, who represents the faction of veteran secular dissident Michel Kilo, is a former political...

(Translation by Dani Murad) A source with close ties with Aleppo’s southern revolutionary brigades, informed Zaman Alwasl of the neglect that took place in arming that front, indicating that rebels’ retreat from that area was the result of an...

(AFP)- A car bomb killed at least 34 people on Friday in a government-controlled village in the central Syrian province of Hama, state news agency SANA reported. More than 50 people were wounded in the attack in Al-Horra, which was blamed on rebels fighting to overthrow President...

BEIRUT (AP) — An international rights group said Thursday that Kurdish authorities ruling three enclaves in northeastern Syria have committed abuses, including arbitrary arrests of political opponents, and have failed to address abductions and unresolved killings in areas under their...

With Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters, flags and emblems everywhere, there is no mistaking who controls the north Syria city of Raqa. Fighters from ISIL, the jihadist group that is now spearheading an offensive in Iraq, already regard the city that is strategically...

(NOW)- Forty Hezbollah fighters were killed Thursday in an ambush in the Syrian flashpoint town of Rankous, near the Lebanese border. A Free Syrian Army member identifying himself as Abu Omar Shatout told NOW that the ambush was carried out in farmland on the outskirts of the town....

(Zaman Alwasl)- Aleppo’s Military Council has agreed on new leadership that includes all moderate fighting factions in the embattled province on Wednesday, sources said. Representatives of Hazm Movement, Mujahidin Army, Division 16, and other rebel...

Two men have been executed over spy charges in Daraya, a south-west outskirt of Syrian capital, rebel statement says. The statement, which issued by Daraya rebel authority, said Shariah Law (the Islamic Law) has been implemented on two spies of...

(Al Arabiya News)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brother, Maher, has had his photo go viral on Twitter after he posed for a snap with a well-known Syrian singer. Maher al-Assad has not stepped into the media spotlight for years and last year, it was rumored that he had died...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday terrorism will strike back against the West and other countries that "supported" attacks in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. Ever since a revolt broke out in March 2011, Assad has blamed all violence in Syria on a...

* Redeployment could have implications for Syria fighting * Resident say clashes calmed in some areas of Damascus * Iraqi fighters have helped Assad turn tide of war BEIRUT/BAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim militias fighting in Syria have started...