Most Syrians believe that disregarding mother’s day this year is a humanitarian obligation, for no need to light a candle on mothers’ wounds who became either mothers of martyrs or detainees, or in the best cases mothers of homeless and threatened by the Syrian regime. A...

The German government has asked federal prosecutors to examine whether German firms broke the law by exporting equipment to  Syria  during the 1980s and early 1990s that may have helped the country to develop chemical weapons. An  economy  ministry spokesman...

Syria, Russia and Afghanistan have the largest numbers of people fleeing their homelands to seek asylum, and most are turning to Europe, the United Nations refugee agency said in a report Friday. Syria's 3-year-old civil war generated 56,351 asylum seekers in 2013, more than double the...

Syrian soldiers have raised the national flag on the battlements of a 900-year-old Crusader castle after a three-month siege that ended on Thursday when rebel fighters fled. The recapture of Crac des Chevaliers, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is a real and symbolic victory over...

A document sent from the Head of security branch 279 to Security Director dated 2/1/2014 shows evidence that Syrian regime decision in not more than dictation from Russian ally. Zaman Alwasl has obtained that document and it shows the Russian directions about Geneva2,...

The head of Shiite Lebanese movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, sent an “indirect message” to Israel last year saying his country’s southern border is “the safest place in the world,” Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Wednesday. The London-based daily cited leaked documents it...

Nearly half of Syria's declared chemical weapons have been shipped out of the country after two more cargoes were loaded onto vessels in the Mediterranean over the last week, the international team overseeing the disarmament process said. The joint mission of the  United...

Forty one wounded Syrian rebels crossed a river into Lebanon on Thursday after the Syrian army ambushed the fighters as they tried to flee a besieged area, two Lebanese medical sources in the area said. Eight more rebels either arrived dead or succumbed to their wounds after...

Syrian rebels have taken the Gharz central prison in Daraa in southern Syria, freeing about 300 to 400 detainees. Al-Omari brigades, Islamist rebel group, also say they have taken the vehicle training grounds to the south of the prison and a “secret facility”. Syria activists...

Syria’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that a US decision to close its Washington embassy and two consulates was illegal and arbitrary. A statement described the decision as “an arbitrary measure,” saying it was “a clear violation of the Vienna Convention” that governs...

A 107-year-old woman who fled the conflict in Syria has arrived in Germany to be reunited with her family, including her newborn great-great-granddaughter, officials said Monday. Sabria Khalaf had fled her home in Syria seven months ago with her son Kenan, travelling to Turkey and then...

  “I never imagined that our calls to get our freedom from captivity by Free Syrian Army   would be without impact and would not resonate the Syrian regime,” a captive officer from the Syrian Army said, who was detained by Liwa al-Twhid, rebel islamist group. The...

Israeli defence minister has warned the Syrian government that it would pay a "high price" for helping armed groups bent on attacking his country. Moshe Yaalon comments on Wednesday came a day after roadside bombing, blamed on Damascus, wounded four Israeli troops in the...

Syria's government on Tuesday decided to establish a "space agency" to conduct scientific research despite the civil war that has torn the country apart and devastated its economy. State news agency SANA said the cabinet had approved a project to create the so-called Syrian Space...

At least eight people were killed and 15 others wounded in a mortar shelling on suburbs of Syria's capital of Damascus Tuesday evening, the pro-government Sama TV reported. The mortars targeted the southern suburbs of Babila, Yalda, Beit Sahem, the report said, adding that ambulances...

The UN Palestinian refugee agency on Tuesday resumed food distribution in the besieged Yarmuk camp in Damascus after a two-week halt. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said aid workers distributed 465 food parcels in addition to bread and jam, as well as 2,000 doses of polio vaccines and...

  The United States on Tuesday formally notified the Syrian government that it must suspend operations at its embassy here and at its two consulates in Michigan and Texas, the State Department said. The move stops short of a formal break of relations, but it bars Syria...

 A roadside bomb wounded four Israeli soldiers patrolling the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, and  Israel retaliated with artillery fire on Syrian army positions, the army said. It was not clear who had planted the bomb in an area where the Syrian military, Lebanese...

 Deputy head of the National Party for the justice and constitution, WAAD (en:promise) denied claims saying that Syria's Muslim Brotherhood movement stands behind the party formation.  Nabil Kassis  accused media of their attempts to show the party, ...

  A Syrian national was found dead on Tuesday morning near the Lebanese University in Fanar. The expression “in retaliation for Yabroud and Syria” was written in blood across the body of the national. Lebanese Security forces rushed to the scene, cordoned...