A second shipment of chemical weapons materials has been removed from Syria under a deal to eliminate its arsenal, the joint U.N. mission overseeing the disarmament said Monday. “Today, a further shipment of chemical weapons materials took place from...
The Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport in the north of the country on Sunday, Lebanese media reported Monday morning. There are currently no other confirmations of this report, the Israeli Haaretz reported . Israeli security sources...
They were sleepy tree-lined boulevards where people lived and worked, time-worn markets where they came to trade and exquisitely detailed mosques where, throughout the ages, they prayed. All now stand in ruins, ravaged by a war that is not only killing generations of...
Syria's government delegation at peace talks in Geneva presented a declaration of principles for negotiations which did not mention a transition of power and was immediately rejected by the opposition, Syrian television said on Monday. The "declaration of basic principles" said...
Jaish al-Mujahideen fighters have arrested early today the commander (Emir) of the State of Iraq and The Levant in Kafr Hamra town in the western countryside of Aleppo, sources told Zaman Alwasl. Local activists assured that Ahmed Jamal Naief...
Mujahideen of Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar (JMA) have stormed regime forces in Ma’arat al-Artiq, west of Kafr Hamra and east of Babis, 82 km near Aleppo, Jihadist group, The Victorious Party In the Land of Ash-Sham, said in a statement posted online. Meanwhile, a faction...
The wife of prominent Syrian activist and journalist Mazen Darwish, detained by authorities since February 2012, on Sunday appealed for his release as a "goodwill gesture" amid peace talks in Switzerland. Her call came as Syrian government and...
A coalition member claimed that some opposition delegates to Geneva peace talks have applied for political asylum, according to Zaman Alwasl. The National Council member, Mr. Marwan Hajjo al-Rifai, said in a message had been sent to the coalition leadership, that...
Jihadist social media pages and rebels confirmed killing of Hajji Baker, top commander of the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL). A photo of the slain Hajji Baker posted online by rebel group, Mujahedeen of Northern Aleppo countryside, purporting that his real name...
Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up "the keys to Damascus." With little progress to show after...
The Syrian government has agreed that women and children in the besieged districts of the central city of Homs can leave "immediately", peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said. The government asked that the opposition provide names of other civilians who wish to leave the siege imposed by...
Face-to-face talks between Syria's warring parties stalled on Sunday over easing the humanitarian crisis, opposition delegates said, deepening doubts over tougher political negotiations which are due to follow. Government and opposition delegations discussed aid and prisoner releases...
Top Syrian government officials have told Al Jazeera that an aid convoy is ready to enter the city of Homs after rival delegations meeting in Geneva agreed on the need for humanitarian access to conflict areas. Bouthaina Shabaan, President Bashar al-Assad's media and political adviser,...
Syria's civil war foes held their first face-to-face meetings on Saturday, launching talks aimed at ending nearly three years of conflict which has killed 130,000 people and destabilized the wider Middle East. Government and opposition delegates faced each other across a...
Munzer Akbik, National Coalition President’s spokesman, expected regime’s delegation withdrawal “to evade the commitment to the terms of Geneva I which form the basis for Geneva II. Geneva I Communique calls for the formation of a...
At least 29 people were killed in clashes in Egypt Saturday during rival rallies on the anniversary of the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, underscoring the country's violent polarisation. Three years after Egyptians rose up to demand the overthrow of...
Rebel Free Syrian Army seized Saturday two checkpoints near border village with Lebanon after ambushing forces loyal to Basher al-Assad and its backed militia Hezbollah, leaving 15 soldiers dead, Zaman Alwasl source said. The one-week skirmishes have taken place near Al...
“Because his wife wasn't wearing a veil when they were walking in the city of Raqqa, he was arrested by the State of Iraq and The Levant,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Another man has been arrested due to sitting in front of his house with...
Sources close to Assad’s official delegation in Geneva talks denied what has been circulated about agreements being made between the two delegations, affirming that the first dialogue session will focus on humanitarian issues only, Sate News agency SANA...
Syria's air force struck rebel-held areas near Damascus and Aleppo Saturday, a monitoring group said, as regime and opposition representatives met briefly in the same room in Geneva for peace talks. Government warplanes fired rockets at Talfita north of the capital, and helicopters...
