At least 6 people have been killed and 40 wounded in an air strike on Saqba town in the Eastern Ghouta near Damascus Wednesday, activists say. Most towns of rebel Eastern Ghouta have been under siege for more than a year, and under...
(Reporting by Farsi al-Rifai; Translation by Dani Murad) From the heart of Damascus, in Qaboun neighborhood and coinciding with the World Cup 2014, the Facebook page “Lens of young Dimashqi” has published a number of pictures of a child under the age...
(AFP)- Syrian army helicopter fire killed nine children in a camp for displaced civilians near the Jordanian border on Wednesday, a monitoring group said. They were among 12 civilians killed in the air raid on the camp near the village of Shajara, south of Damascus, the Syrian...
Residents of the Armenian Christian village of Kasab on Syria’s border with Turkey began returning home on Monday, dancing, cheering and waving flags in the main square a day after the army retook the area from rebels. The fall of Kasab to President Bashar al-Assad’s forces...
(AFP)- Chemical weapons such as chlorine have been used in a “systematic manner” in Syria, according to an initial report by a team from the world's watchdog investigating alleged attacks there . The report has not been publicly released, but the...
(Translation by Dani Murad) According to private and knowledgeable sources in Homs, Iran with all its potentials and “very strong” influence over Syria, seeks to take over all the mosques, which include tombs and shrines of ( Ahl al-Bayt) , (prophet Muhammad’s family)...
(Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it has gained Syrian approval to open four border crossings from Iraq, Jordan and Turkey to deliver aid to millions of people under a "far-reaching formula" proposed to U.N. Security Council members. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin...
Pro-regime social media activists said top Militia fighter killed south Damascus on Tuesday. The well-known militant Mwafaq Badriya was born in Aadhar village, predominantly Druze, he gained fame for his savage personality as he committed many crimes since the...
BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including a local rebel commander, opposition activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast struck near the offices of...
* War crimes sleuths issue 12th report on regional conflict * ISIL accused of atrocities against all communities * Syrians describe "slowly starving" under air attack By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA, June 17 (Reuters) - The Middle East appears on the...
(AFP)- New clashes erupted in eastern Syria between rebels seeking President Bashar Assad's ouster and a jihadist group that has captured swathes of territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitor said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday night's fighting...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Head of Deir Ezzor's Military Council Monday escaped an assassination attempt by unknown armed group. Col. Munir Abu Moataz told Zaman Alwasl that a group of of 'Revolution enemies' targeted his car in al-Mohassan...
An airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 45 people, including 2 women and 5 children, on Monday as helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held neighborhood, activists said in recent death toll. The Britain-based Syrian...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Top commander of pro-regime National Defence Forces has been killed by a landmine explosion near al-Mleiha town, east Damascus, activists said Monday. Captain. Rudein Ali Issa was NDF leader of Damascus Southern Front. ...
London, (IANS)- Citizen reporters are increasingly getting stories out of remote areas of Syria that are difficult for traditional media to reach during the ongoing conflict, according to data collated for Index on Censorship magazine. The magazine worked with Syria Tracker, an...
Young Syrian opposition activists living with the constant dangers of more than three years at war are braving bombardment by government forces and jihadists' threats to watch their favourite World Cup teams. In Raqa province, controlled by powerful jihadist group the Islamic...
8 Jihadist fighters killed when an Iraqi drone targeted a convoy of al-Qaeda renegade group in the northwest Iraqi city of Tal Afar Sunday, Zaman Alwasl source said. Two fighters from ‘Ahrar al-Tayyaneh revolutionaries,’ Syrian rebel...
(AFP)- Syria has freed after 21 years in jail an ex-horse rider known to have been an equestrian rival of one of President Bashar al-Assad's late brothers, reports said Sunday. The release of Adnan Qassar is part of a wide-reaching amnesty that Assad decreed last week, and has...
Syria's army has been pounding for 24 hours major bases of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in coordination with the Baghdad government, a monitor said Sunday. The strikes against ISIL -- which has spearheaded a week-long jihadist offensive in Iraq -- have been more...
(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Alma Shahhod, the well known activist, passed away yesterday after long battle with illness and injuries, in Amman, Jordan. Alma was considered an icon for the Syrian Revolution,...
