It has emerged that Azerbaijani nationals are among the foreigners fighting in the Syrian conflict. Video footage shows Azerbaijanis among the rebel forces, and a number have been reported killed. While most seem to come from Azerbaijan’s Sunni Muslim minority, and gravitate towards...

  Syria's warring sides met briefly together in the same room on Saturday for the first time since peace talks started in Geneva, the U.N. said. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi's spokeswoman confirmed Saturday morning that he and the two sides were meeting in the same...

A week ago before launching Geneva II talks in Montreux, Switzerland over Syrian conflict Zaman Alwasl has published what have been said behind closed doors between the International community officials and Syria’s key opposition.  A document issued on November 26, 2013 by the...

  A group linked to al Qaeda, emboldened by its recent victory over rival rebels in Syria, has imposed sweeping restrictions on personal freedoms in the northern province of Raqqa as it seeks to consolidate control over the region. The ISIL radicals have...

One of the Islamic Front powerful leaders described the Syrian opposition president in his negotiations with Assad’s regime in Geneva as a new Arthur Belfour, who promised the Jewish people of a national home in Palestine (The Balfour Declaration 1917), according to his official...

A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 63 people, including women and children, in the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus because of food and medical shortages, AFP reported. Yarmuk in southern Damascus has been under a choking army...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Friday denied his country had sent Hezbollah militants to fight in Syria, saying the Tehran-backed Shiite extremist group was making its own decisions. And he told a gathering at the World Economic Forum that he believed the Syrian conflict...

UN and Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said a Syrian government delegation and the Western-backed opposition will meet together on Saturday "in the same room" and that they have accepted the principles of a 2012 communique that called for a transitional government....

Daoud Brigade will launch major military act against Bashar al-Assad forces in coordination with other rebel factions in Idlib countryside, sources told Zaman Alwasl. The Daoud Brigade, which has pledged allegiance to the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), issued a...

Syria’s warring sides are not sitting in the same room in the Geneva peace talks despite efforts by U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi to bring them together. Instead Brahimi is meeting with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s government at 11:00 a.m. (1000 GMT) and will meet later...

Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouheisni, the powerful commander in the State of Iraq and The Levant revealed more information over the kidnapping case of Hajji Baker’s wife who had been arrested by Islamists rebels week ago. Mouheisni said via social media that the women with her children...

  Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant  (ISIL) erupted this month, AFP reported. “The number of people killed in fighting between the Islamic State of Iraq and the...

The moment the eyes of the warring Syrian delegations met in Switzerland was historic. But peace talks between representatives from Syria’s government and opposition could still drag on for weeks, if not months. During the preliminary session at the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace on the...

Syria's opposition leader on Thursday laid out his demands for talks on ending the country's civil war, calling for the creation of a transitional government that does not include President Bashar al-Assad. Ahmed Jarba told reporters in Geneva, where rival sides in the Syrian conflict...

The United Nations hopes that political talks between the warring sides in Syria will clinch local ceasefires to allow vital food and medicines to reach millions of civilians, the U.N. humanitarian chief said on Thursday. Valerie Amos, in an interview with Reuters a day after an...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has seized the city of Manbij east Aleppo after two weeks of violent clashes with Islamist rebels, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Rebels withdrew for lack of ammunition, activist said, ISIL's reinforcements never stopped...

Beaten, burned, bruised, strangled bodies lying on a dirty floor. Some show signs of starvation, others are missing their eyes, a number of them appear to have been electrocuted. The horror is nearly impossible to describe… but it is hardly surprising . The thousands...

Turkish Anadolu Agency News has obtained new documents showing evidence of war crimes against dissidents . The New York Times newspaper said that Obama’s administration first learned last November about a harrowing trove of photographs that were said to document...

  The Obama administration first learned last November about a harrowing trove of photographs that were said to document widespread torture and executions in Syrian prisons when a State Department official viewed some of the images on a laptop belonging to an antigovernment...

An international conference convened to find a peaceful political solution to the ongoing war in Syria started with a furious showdown on Wednesday, as opposing sides unleashed their anger in opening remarks, an indication of what is to come. In front of an audience made up of...