41 members of key opposition group National Coalition withdrew after disputes over participation in Geneva II, NC member told Zaman Alwasl. Dr. Khaled Khoja, NC representative in Turkey, said to Zaman Alwasl that the resignation was a protest against the maladministration...

  40 members of key opposition group National Coalition withdrew from after disputes over participation in Geneva II participation, according to Zaman Alwasl source. Meanwhile, UN chief BanKi-moon sends invites to the peace conference, ‘’Iran is not included’’,...

  Infighting between Syrian rebels threatened a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, a source said, forcing doctors to hide patients as clashes flared between Islamists and members of the Free Syrian Army. "Doctors are working neutrally, treating both...

U.S officials in Brussels urged Iran on Monday to help put an end to the Syrian regime’s bombardment of Aleppo and improve humanitarian access to trapped civilians, according to Reuters. The officials said such steps could make other countries look more favorably on some Iranian...

Syria’s Islamic Front, the country’s biggest rebel alliance, in a statement issued today called for protecting Immigrant Jihadists in Syria and their families as response to the ongoing battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) “Immigrant Jihadists are...

  Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...

  Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...

  A Turkish photographer kidnapped while covering the civil war in neighboring Syria has been freed, Turkey’s state news agency said Sunday. Bunyamin Aygun, who works for the newspaper Milliyet, was taken hostage by radical Islamists late last year during a reporting...

  Syrian rebels in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh have agreed a local ceasefire with the regime after nearly a year of fighting and bombardment, activists said, according to    Al Jazeera . The opposition local council said that after negotiations...

    Syria's main opposition National Coalition re-elected Ahmad Jarba as its leader during a general assembly meeting in Istanbul on Sunday, the coalition said in a statement. Jarba won 65 votes, beating his only rival Riad Hijab -- the best-known defector from the...

  Syria's Islamic Front, the country's biggest rebel alliance, issued Sunday a strong warning to jihadists, three days after a new front made up of local insurgents emerged against them. "We fight against whoever attacks us and whoever pushes us to battle, whether...

  Clashes continued Sunday between moderate rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in some of the most serious infighting among those trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The fighting marks the strongest pushback...

Former Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, who defected in July 2012 from Bashar al-Assad's government, is to compete for the National Coalition presidency chair S u nday evening, sources said to Zaman Alwasl. The Syrian opposition scheduled to meet on 15 and 16 January in...

The United States on Sunday appeared for the first time to hold out the possibility that  Iran  might play a role on the sidelines of a Syria peace conference even if Tehran is not formally invited. Washington, and Syrian opposition groups, have long had reservations...

The negotiations are underway to swap the 14 Maaloula nuns by rebel detainees in Assad’s prisons, well-informed source said to Zaman Alwasl, assuring that the number of nuns   is 14 not 12, in addition to their servant. Bashar al-Assad’s big ally, t ycoon George...

A newly formed al-Mujahideen Army pledged to cleanse Syrian lands from any presence for the powerful al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), rebel commander told Zaman Alwasl. On Saturday, Syrian rebels battled ISIL fighters across the north-west of...

  A massive explosion hit an oil pipeline outside the Syrian town of Tal Kalakh on Friday night amid the fighting that has raged in the region near the border along Lebanon’s northern Akkar region, Now news reported. The oil pipeline from Homs to Tartus was blown up...

  A high-ranking Syrian rebel army official told Al Arabiya News Channel Saturday that the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is “a group of gangsters following” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Iran and Iraq. The Secretary...

The suspected leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group that claimed responsibility for bombing the Iranian embassy in Beirut two months ago died in custody on Saturday, security sources said. Majid bin Muhammad al-Majid, a Saudi national who was wanted by authorities in his own...

  The powerful al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is mobilizing its troops near the highway of Al-Bab city at the gate of Aleppo city as more reinforcements from Azaz are coming to back the radical group that faces unexpected revolt by Syrian...