Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will hold joint talks on Jan. 13 in the run up to the so-called Geneva 2 conference on Syria, Russian Interfax news agency reported on Friday. "On Jan. 13 there will be a meeting...
Jihadists have made advances on rebel fighters in the battle for Raqa, in northern Syria, but are on the back foot in parts of Aleppo and Idlib, activists said Friday. "In Idlib and Aleppo provinces, the (rebel) Free Syrian Army is advancing, but in Raqa the Islamic State of Iraq and...
Several factions of the Syrian opposition, meeting together for the first time, called on Friday for a new coalition but did not reach agreement on who should attend peace talks later this month, or whether they would attend at all. With less than a fortnight to go until the first...
Abdul Basset al-Sarout, r evolutionary i con and vocal supporter, has released a motivational song , urging rebels of the embattled city of Homs for more fortitude and patience to overthrow Bashar Al Assad regime. Syrian people kept in mind...
More gains have been achieved in the western countryside of Aleppo by rebels against the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), source In Brigade 9 told Zaman Alwasl. Mujahedeen Army seized the big city of Manbij and the villages of Kafr Aleppo, Sheikh Ali and kafr...
Loyal forces to Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 70 Syrian rebels as they sought to break a regime siege on part of Homs, in central Syria, local activists said on Thursday. Prominent dissident Omar Edelbi said that more than 70 rebel of the embattled city of Homs...
Rebels of Al Mujahedeen Army, who took control of Al Dana, last Islamic Emirate of Al Qaeda State ‘Iraq and The Levant’ in Idlib Province, had freed dozens of hostages and abductees, according to Zaman Alwasl sources. ‘The Black Room’ is a horrific prison...
Reports of Christians dying for their faith almost doubled between 2012 and 2013, with more Christians martyred in Syria last year than the worldwide total for 2012. Open Doors, a non-denominational group that supports persecuted Christians, said Wednesday that 2,123 Christians were...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Thursday of "extreme human suffering" in Syria's Yarmouk camp, with state media saying "terrorists" had blocked aid from entering. Since September, at least 15 people have died from hunger in the camp, which came under...
China is supporting the work of the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to safely remove materials of chemical weapons from Syria, a Chinese envoy said here Wednesday. "There has been new development in the shipping out chemical weapons material from...
Islamist rebels have seized the State of Iraq and Levant's main stronghold in al-Dana town in Idlib province after almost one week of clashes, Syrian Revolution a ctivists said. Rebel fighters, who seized ISIL’s HQ in Aleppo yesterday, were...
Disparate Syrian opposition groups, including several Islamist rebel representatives, met for the first time in the Spanish city of Cordoba to seek common ground ahead of peace talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s government later this month. After nearly three...
A massive car bomb killed 18 people in the village of Kafat in Syria’s central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights NGO said. The monitoring group said women and children were among the dead in the blast, which also killed members of a...
US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to France and Kuwait from Jan 11 to 15 ahead of a key peace conference on Syrian crisis, the State Department said Wednesday. In Paris, the top US envoy will attend a ministerial meeting of the London 11, a group of countries backing the...
Russia blocked a British-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government attacks on the city of Aleppo, diplomats said. It was the second time in a month that Russia objected to a western bid to slam President Bashar al-Assad's air assault against Syria's biggest...
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent Syrian main opposition group, National Coalition an invitation to attend the international conference on Syria which will be held in Montreux, west Switzerland on 22 January. Zaman Alwasl has obtaind a copy of the invitation...
Al Salam Mosque in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh opened its doors and people started to hear Athan after 11 months of siege since the truce between rebels and Assad regime entered into force this week. Rebels of Barzeh have agreed a local ceasefire with the regime...
Activists reported fierce clashes in al-Dana town, the State of Iraq and Levant's main stronghold in Idlib province. Rebel fighters, who seized ISIL’s HQ in Aleppo today, are looking for more gains by expelling al-Qaeda militants from al-Dana, according to sources....
It was confirmed today that militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have summarily executed three media activists: Qutaiba Abu Yunus, Sultan Al-Shami and Amin Abu Muhammad, who were all members of the Ana Souri Assembly, in Aleppo. The late...
Britain has accepted 1,500 asylum seekers from Syria in the past year, the Deputy Prime Minister has disclosed. The government has been criticised by politicians including Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, for refusing to admit Syrian refugees to Britain. However,...
