Thousands of people have fled a rebel-held town in Syria  after it was bombed and shelled in an operation that has prompted fears of a major assault by ground troops, the  United Nations  said on Friday. The fighting came as peace talks in Geneva neared the end...

A fresh round of U.N.-brokered peace talks between Syria's government and opposition has made no progress, the two sides said Friday. "We deeply regret that this round did not make any progress," Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad told reporters as both sides traded blame...

The United Nations on Friday halted the evacuation of civilians from the blockaded city of Homs until the fate of men detained from the rebel-held areas becomes clear, a senior U.N. official said. The development came just a day after a cease-fire was extended for three more days, the...

A British man thought to have carried out a suicide bombing in Syria last week was Abdul Waheed Majid, the BBC has learned. The 41-year-old, from Crawley in West Sussex, is believed to have carried out a suicide truck bombing in the city of Aleppo last Thursday. Officials have not...

The global chemical arms watchdog said Friday it has chosen two U.S. and Finnish companies to help destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal as part of an ambitious plan that has suffered a string of setbacks. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Finland’s Ekokem...

 Warning that "failure" was staring him in the face, the Syria peace talks mediator said on Thursday that the United States and Russia had promised renewed support to keep their rival Syrian allies talking. U.N. diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi met senior diplomats from Washington and...

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on Richter scale hit the Syrian-Turkish border at dawn on Friday and lasted for several seconds, according to the International Centers for Seismology. The center of the quake was 68 km SE of Adana, 22 km SW of Dörtyol . It occurred at a depth of...

Zaman Alwasl newspaper has exclusively obtained new documents and photos showing evidence of war crimes against dissidents . 24 days ago, the Turkish Anadolu News Agency exclusively published a report about Syria  war crime evidence , where a person who served...

  Bashar al-Assad’s military intelligence has arrested members of Souriya Al Jadid Party (en: New Syria) from their office in Tartous after their call to get rid of both regime and opposition figures, according to activists.  The powerful intelligence branch has...

A humanitarian ceasefire in the Syrian city of Homs was extended on Thursday for three more days, the city's governor told Reuters. "The ceasefire has been extended for an additional three days, starting from today, to allow the evacuation of the remaining civilians," Talal...

   Suqour al-Sahel brigade has joined the Islamist rebels in their war on Al Qaeda splinter, the State of Iraq and Al Sham, it said in video statement seen by Zaman Alwasl. Saeed Tarboush, leader of the rebel group that based in Syria's costal area, has addressed...

  49  Syrian rebel group south Syria have declared in statement, seen by Zaman Alwasl, to operate under one armed entity called 'The southern Front'. The Statement assured that the newly body, that belongs to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), will be the moderate...

Among the dwindling holdouts in the rebel-held Old City neighborhood of Homs, an area of the devastated Syrian city that international relief officials are trying to evacuate, is the former star goalkeeper of the national soccer team, transformed over three years from a pacifist...

Moscow Wednesday accused Washington of deliberately distorting its position on conflict-torn Syria, a day after US President Barack Obama branded Russia as a holdout against a UN draft resolution on Syria aid. "This is unlikely that our US partners do not possess real information on...

Bashar al-Assad's forces and allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah stepped up attacks on Syria's strategic border town of Yabroud on Wednesday, activists said, in apparent preparation for a new offensive to flush out rebels. The assault is the latest step in Assad and...

   A soon speech expected for Hezbollah Militia leader, Hassan Nasrallah, amid blasts and scores of coffins wrapped by his party flag heading back to Lebanon from Syria everyday . According to the sources close to the party,  Nasrallah will deliver a speech...

Shabiha militias have executed nine people by slaughtering them with knives in the village off Al Hara in Daraa Suburbs Wednesday morning, activists said. Among the martyrs, seven brothers and a father and his son, witnesses confirmed. Shabiha, who consist of local guard...

They may have been whispering, but unbeknownst to Faisal al-Mokdad, Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, and an official at the Syrian embassy in Geneva, the microphones did not disguise their sideline conversation during a press conference on Tuesday. The conversation sees the Syrian...

The Syrian opposition called on Wednesday for a transitional governing body to be set up that would oversee a total ceasefire under U.N. monitoring, and be empowered to drive out foreign fighters deployed on both sides of the civil war. The confidential paper, seen by Reuters, was...

 Russia said on Wednesday it would veto a U.N. resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria in its current form, denouncing the draft as an effort to lay a foundation for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government. Moscow had already dismissed the...