Ashraf was born the very day the Syria conflict began: March 15, 2011. He is the seventh child in a family from Homs. Within a week of his birth, the conflict arrived in his neighbourhood. For months his family rarely left the house. Some days there was non-stop bombing, others were...

Opposition fighters in Syria claim to have kidnapped at least 94 women and children belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, according to a video obtained by Al Jazeera. In the video, broadcast by Al Jazeera on Thursday, the rebels...

As the third anniversary of the Syrian uprising arrives Saturday, the last of 100,000 names of people killed in the conflict will be read aloud outside the White House. A project lasting continuously for three days, it involves over 140 people reading aloud for half-hour periods,...

 As Syria's conflict enters its fourth year, ravaging the country and creating a massive humanitarian crisis, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is on the offensive to regain territory from a divided opposition. Diplomatic efforts by Russia and the United States are all but on hold with the...

Syrian war planes continued to strike Yabroud Thursday, the Qalamoun Media Center reported, as official government news agency SANA said the Syrian army had advanced from the Rima farms toward Yabroud, destroying “terrorist dens full of weapons and munitions, and killing a number of them.”...

Argentine and FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi has also turned to Facebook to raise awareness for the suffering of Syrian children after his rival  Cristiano Ronaldo  took a similar move earlier Wednesday. Messi wrote on his Facebook page: “Don't let the #childrenofsyria...

Opposition Coalition's Ambassador to Qatar Nizar al-Heraki claimed, in a phone call with Zaman Alwasl, that the embassy will renew Syrians passports in the upcoming days within a legal acknowledged framework. “We are about % 60 ready and within the next days will be fully...

  Founder of Syrian Community in Arab Gulf countries (SCAGC) has confirmed the Syrian regime decision to close Syrian Embassies in Riyadh, Kuwait and Washington.  Jameel Daghestani said the reason behind such an act is to strip Syrian expatriates, mainly the anti-Assad regime, from...

Islamist militants and their local supporters have killed at least 22 people in a village in northern  Syria  near the Turkish border, opposition activists said on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group quoted residents in Shuyukh, 100 km...

Iran hosted a rival version of a "Friends of Syria" conference on Wednesday, convening lawmakers from allies around the world to push for a diplomatic solution to Syria's civil war and lambaste alleged Western interference. Iran is a longtime ally of President Bashar al-Assad, whose...

President Bashar al-Assad visited displaced Syrians in the town of Adra on Wednesday, state media said, in a rare public appearance outside the heart of Damascus. State television said Assad inspected a shelter for people displaced by fighting in Adra, which lies about 12...

Syria’s currently suspended seat at the Arab League will remain vacant until the opposition completes forming its institutions, the pan-Arab group’s secretary general said on Sunday. “The last Arab summit in Doha in March 2012 adopted the principle of granting Syria’s seat...

The number of children affected by the civil war in Syria has more than doubled over the past year, with hundreds of thousands of young Syrians trapped in besieged parts of the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Monday. “After three years of conflict and turmoil,...

Syria freed only 25 prisoners, not 150 as had been reported, in exchange for a group of kidnapped nuns, the country’s information minister Omran al-Zohbi has said. The statement came despite mediators and the opposition saying nearly 150 female detainees had been freed in exchange...

   Syrian regime has issued a new law which is to ban Syrian citizens from leaving their country without permission (exit visa). Syrian News Agency (SANA) said Bashar al-Assad Tuesday issued a new law prohibiting entry into or departure from Syria for persons who do not hold valid...

 Doha center for media freedom has interviewed fellow journalist Fathi Bayoud editor in-chief of Zaman Alwasl, who speaks about 3 years of covering Syrian conflict.  In short documentary, Doha center highlights most difficulties Arab journalists are facing in...

Mouadamiya Al-Cham’s truce is just an ink on paper, that how it’s described by activist Mohammad Ghiath, who expressed his resentment of the deteriorating living conditions in the area. The embattled town in southern Syria, administratively is a part of the Rif Dimashq...

Activists reported that Damascus recently witnesses many incidences of arresting and detaining pro-regime people like informers, spies and popular committees' members in many neighborhoods. Activists confirmed that an informer in Bab Srijeh neighborhood, known to be a drug...

Syrian refugees in this border outpost were delighted to hear their home town of Azaz had been liberated - not from Bashar al-Assad's troops but from al-Qaeda fighters who subjected them to a regime that included torture and public beheadings. For Syrians who three years ago rose...

Dozens of Assad's forces and militias loyal to it were killed on Saturday in a successful operation conducted by Deir al-Zor rebels, activist reported. The rebels blew up fuel tanks and ammunition stores in the regime’s security square near the military hospital in "Ghazi...