It was in Baba Amr, in Syria's Homs, that the armed uprising against Bashar al-Assad erupted, but with people turning out to vote Tuesday as the president sought re-election, the spirit of revolution seemed to have vanished. A loudspeaker outside the Hassan al-Sabet school, the...

Syrian community activists in Belgium have called for a mass rally in front of European Parliament on Tuesday in protest against Assad’s presidential elections. Free Syrian Community Coordination in Belgium said in statement, obtained by Zaman...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — With security heightened in Damascus and thousands fearing rebel attacks in other cities, Syria holds an election Tuesday in the middle of its bloody civil war — a vote that President Bashar Assad is expected to win easily and that critics have denounced as a...

(Zaman Alwasl)- In statement issued Saturday, rebel and jihadist groups in Hama have announced the province a military zone by June 2, day before the planned presidential elections. The rebel factions of the famous war-torn city in the last century eighties, called for...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Main rebel groups in Deir Ezzor city pledged in statement issued Sunday to patronize each other as to avoid infighting and to have one command room to fight Bashar al-Assad's forces. Media activist, preferred anonymity, say to Z aman...

The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said. The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also...

Syria entered its final day of campaigning on Sunday for the June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, a vote the opposition brands a "parody of democracy". With swathes of the country out of government control, voting will only take place in...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Islam Army, main Islamic Front unit, announced Sunday taking control of neighboring orchards to al-Mleiha town near Damascus. Islam Army said in statement posted online that its fighters had killed 25 soldiers in the latest...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- Sources reported to Zaman Alwasl that many political figures inside Syria are about to announce the formation of a Political Rescue Movement aims to call for a National conference to regain the national...

  In statement issued Saturday, rebel and jihadist groups in Hama have announced the province a military zone by June 2, day before the planned presidential elections. The rebel factions of the famous war-torn city in the last century eighties,...

Syrian rebels have killed 11 soldiers after targeting their barrack in Daraya suburb near Damascus, activists and media outlets reported Saturday. The regime warplanes have retaliated by striking the embattled city with barrel bombs leaving massive...

(Al Arabiya)- Sarah Abushaar, the daughter of a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother who was born in the United States and raised in Kuwait, addressed the Harvard Commencement 2014 on Thursday. Her speech titled “The Harvard Spring” sought to provide homage the pro-democracy...

(Reuters)-At least 20 regime soldiers died after Syrian rebels detonated a large bomb in a tunnel under the old city of Aleppo on Saturday (May 31) during fighting with government forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a human rights monitoring group with a...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Kawthar Mohamed Ezzo, the child girl with Leishmaniasis is in good care as the Turkish Health Minister ordered to provide the appropriate treatment amid impressive interaction by activists. Two days ago, Zaman Alwasl...

Syria's most extremist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have kidnapped nearly 200 Kurdish civilians from the Aleppo area, a monitor said on Friday. "Fighters from ISIL on Thursday kidnapped at least 193 Kurdish civilians aged from 17 to 70 years from the...

At least 20 people were killed in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr on Friday when barrel bombs dropped by Basher al-Assad’s forces on the embattled neighborhood, activists and monitoring group said. Sources to Zaman Alwasl said that army troops have...

Pope Francis warned Friday that the millions of people affected by the Syria crisis risk being forgotten because of the "globalisation of indifference" toward the conflict. The international community risks "forgetting the daily victims, the unspeakable suffering, the thousands...

Iran said Friday that next week's presidential election in Syria, branded a farce by Western governments, will boost the legitimacy of its ally Bashar al-Assad. "God willing, the elections in Syria will be carried out without a hitch," said Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior...

DAMASCUS, May 30 (Reuters) - As Syria approaches a surreal presidential election in the midst of civil war, the capital has avoided the worst of the conflict but reminders are increasingly coming out the water taps and appearing on the dinner table, to the dismay of Damascenes....

BEIRUT (AP) — Crude bombs dropped by Syrian government forces on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo have killed nearly 2,000 people so far this year, an activist group said Friday. The grim figure is the latest addition to the deadly tally from Syria's civil war,...