A Syrian rebel commander said a team from the world's chemical weapons watchdog investigating an alleged chlorine attack against rebel-held Kafr Zita managed to visit the town Tuesday, hours after coming under attack. Inspectors overseeing the dismantling of Syria's weapons...

DAMASCUS (AFP)- Syria said Tuesday the United Arab Emirates has banned its expats from voting in the country's June 3 presidential election, after similar moves by France, Germany and Belgium. On the eve of the election to be held abroad on Wednesday, "the UAE has joined the...

Egypt's presidential election was extended to a third day on Tuesday, the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported on its website, quoting a member of the body overseeing the vote that former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win.    The decision followed...

(Reuters) - A senior Lebanese-Canadian commander in the Shi'ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah has been killed in Syria where he was fighting alongside Syrian government troops against rebels, security sources and a monitoring group said on Tuesday. Fawzi Ayoub, who is on the...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A convoy of inspectors from the international watchdog overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program came under fire on Tuesday in Syria but all staff members were safe, the organization said. The statement came within minutes after Damascus...

  (By The Nation -Lauren Wolfe)- The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back out. I was sitting in a sweaty, brightly painted room in southern Turkey. The man behind the desk was a...

(Writing by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad) A confidential document by regime’s ministry of interior showed that the ministry had hidden the confiscated weapons, so it would not be seized by Syrian intelligence services.  ...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- Syria's opposition National Coalition has appointed Mrs. Hanan al-Balkhi as its envoy to Norway, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl.   Al-Balkhi is a prominent female activist and an active...

  (Reporting by Aabed Melhel; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ALEPPO (Zaman Alwasl)- 25 people were killed when a barrel bomb hit Bostan al-Qasr neighborhood in Aleppo on Monday, destroying 2 buildings. Activists said that that lack of...

Activists and Zaman Alwasl sources said that rebels have taken the full control of Khan Shaykhoun town , northwest Syria , saying that Assad’s forces have used chlorine gas   in response. The regime forces have retaliated for...

(Reuters) - U.S. ally Jordan said on Monday it was expelling Syria's ambassador for accusing the kingdom of backing Syrian rebels, prompting Damascus to retaliate by barring Jordan's top diplomat. A Jordanian foreign ministry statement gave Syrian Ambassador Bahjat Suleiman, a...

The West-backed opposition group National Coalition has nominated Mr. Mohamed al-Merwih,36 , as its envoy to Amman in agreement with Jordanian authorities, Zaman Alwasl source said. The move Coincides with expelling Syria’s ambassador to Amman on Monday and the approval for the Syrian...

  AMMAN (Zaman Alwasl)-Coinciding with expelling Syria’s ambassador to Amman, Jordan’s king Abdullah II gave approval Monday for the Syrian opposition to open a formal mission in the kingdom, a well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl....

AMMAN- (AP)-Jordan on Monday expelled the Syrian ambassador and ordered him to leave Amman within 24 hours, accusing him of making "offensive" statements about the kingdom. The development was unexpected, since Jordan had kept a Syrian ambassador ever since the conflict...

A British jihadist has been filmed training foreign fighters in Syria, the Sunday Times reported, describing the fighters as “ninjas” as they are seen fully dressed in black in a video uploaded to YouTube. In the clip, the Briton, aged 23 according to the newspaper, said: “There is...

Agence France Presse, Tehran- Iran said Sunday that Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Jarba was the "most inappropriate person" to lead the war-torn country and confirmed it would send observers to next month's presidential election. Jarba, president of the Syrian National Coalition,...

BEIRUT (AP) — The main al-Qaida affiliate in Syria has claimed responsibility for the two latest car bombings in a pro-government neighborhood of the central city of Homs that killed at least 10 people. The Nusra Front made the claim in a statement posted Monday on its Twitter...

DAMASCUS (Zaman Alwasl)- Local sources from the embattled Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, southern Damascus, said vigorous efforts had been made by Syrian regime to reach a cease-fire agreement after number of failed truces last months. The...

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah warned Sunday that hard-line foreign fighters in Syria posed a global threat as they trickled home, accusing European countries of facilitating their joining the rebellion against President Bashar Assad. Sheik Hassan...

Syria's Al-Qaeda branch staged four suicide bomb attacks on army positions Sunday, leaving dozens of casualties, in a bid to cut off Idlib province from the coast, a monitoring group said. The attacks came a day after the Al-Nusra Front announced the creation of an arms factory....