At least 24 people killed and dozens wounded when Bashar al-Assad's missile hit the city of Atareb near Aleppo on Thursday morning, Local Coordination Committees reported. Normal 0 false false false...
Syrian activist Yasmin Bennishi has been released after 12 days of detention by rebel group at Bab al-Hawa border crossing, Zaman Alwasl source said. The Islamic movement of Ahrar al-Sham, which controls the strategic crossing with Turkey, arrested...
Syria's opposition National Coalition to appoint Mrs. Hanan al-Balkhi as its representative in Norway, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. Al-Balkhi is a prominent female activist and an active member in key coalition group, National...
Syria's parliament speaker says a lawmaker has announced his candidacy for the June 3 presidential election — the first to field his bid for the top post in a vote called despite the country's relentless civil war. President Bashar Assad has suggested he would seek another term in...
Chlorine gas attacks in Syria this month, if proven, expose a major loophole in an international deal to remove chemical weapons from the war-torn country and suggest chemical warfare could persist after the removal operation has finished. President Bashar al-Assad agreed...
Holding an election in Syria while civil war rages will only obstruct international efforts to resolve the conflict, the head of the Arab League said on Tuesday. President Bashar al-Assad's government announced on Monday that a presidential election would take place on June...
A German former rapper who joined jihadists fighting in Syria has been killed in a suicide bombing carried out by rival fighters, jihadist sources and a monitor said Tuesday. Denis Mamadou Cuspert, who rapped under the name Deso Dogg...
The Associated Press, Beirut| Weakened Syrian rebels are making their last desperate stand in Homs, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad launch their harshest assault yet to expel them from the central city, once known as the capital of the revolution. Some...
The opposition Interim Government decided in its weekly meeting to pay the salaries for Free Syrian Army fighters (FSA) in Aleppo and Idlib. The financial receivables reached $300,000, $200 thousand would be allocated to fighters in Aleppo, and the...
Raqqa city, which is completely under ISIS’s control, witnesses these days disturbance and tension inside the state, as news is circulated about cooperation between one of the biggest tribes in the region and many military groups and battalions, to attack...
Fox News| The Obama administration said Monday it has "indications" chemical weapons were used in Syria earlier this month, and is investigating whether the Assad regime might have been responsible. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki discussed the allegations a day...
Syria set a presidential election for June 3 on Monday, preparing the ground for leader Bashar al-Assad to defy widespread opposition and extend his grip on power days after he said the war was turning in his favor. The three-year-old rebellion against Assad's rule has...
Dozens of people have been killed in air strikes on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said on Monday, including at least 29 people in a single neighborhood. Also on Monday, state news agency SANA said two people were killed when mortars struck central...
Translation by Dani Murad| Deir al-Zor, Syria's richest oil province is witnessing a sharp tribal tension due to the imminent danger coming from the south of Hasakah province which is represented by ISIS after taking control of number of cities and towns in the...
Allegations that Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in recent attacks gained traction on Sunday when France said it had "information" of toxic gases being used against opposition targets. The claim, by the French president, François Hollande , follows accusations by...
Bashar al-Assad on Sunday visited an ancient Christian town recaptured from rebels last week, state media said, as he seeks to persuade minorities that the government is their best protection against hardline Islamists. Assad's Easter visit to Maaloula - a rare appearance...
Sweida's Kitchen, a simple initiative by a former detainee in Assad prisons who’s from Sweida, located in Harasta, most volunteers who work in are from Sweida as well. For more explanation, Laila, an activist, and a supervisor in Sweida kitchen said: “the...
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By Al Arabiya News | Tribes in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour have begun recruiting hundreds of fighters in readiness to battle rebels from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Saturday. Tribesmen in three...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) | Two rebel car bombs targeted two central Syrian areas controlled by government forces on Saturday, killing at least ten people as opposition forces fought fiercely to hold onto territory, officials and activists reported. Britain-based Syrian Observatory...
