Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have killed some 2,900 people "with knives," the opposition National Coalition said in a new report Tuesday. The publication, timed to coincide with International Human Rights Day, accuses Syrian government forces of carrying out "at least 20...

NATO member Croatia may allow the use of its Adriatic ports to load Syria's deadly chemicals onto a U.S. ship for destruction offshore, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday. "It is envisaged that they will be destroyed, probably in the Atlantic, under supervision of the U.S....

Syria's army Tuesday turned its sights on the town of Yabrud, the last rebel stronghold in the strategic Qalamoun region near Lebanon's border, as it moved to open a key highway to Damascus. The town is believed to be where a group of nuns from the historic Christian hamlet of Maalula...

Syria's Islamic Front has controlled Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey today, promising better services and more secure condition, IF  source told to Zaman Alwasl .   On 19 July 2012, the Free Syrian Army seized the border and defaced images of Bashar al-Assad...

  Razan Zaitouneh, a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who went into hiding for her widely publicized work on atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, has been kidnapped in a rebel-held town, activists said on Tuesday. Zaitouneh is a key figure in the...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern over the targeting of people based on their religion, community or ethnic affiliation in Syria, after a group of nuns went missing from the town of Maaloula. Ban, in a statement released Monday, said he "remains deeply troubled by the...

A radical group linked to Al-Qaeda kidnapped two Spanish journalists in Syria in September, El Mundo newspaper reported on Tuesday. El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, a freelance photographer, were seized on September 16 in Raqqa province, the Spanish...

Lebanese authorities are mobilising to help Syrian refugees living in makeshift camps ahead of a winter storm expected to bring snow and heavy rain, the social affairs minister said Monday. "The ministry, in cooperation with UNHCR and all our partners, has mobilised to do what's...

    The head of the Syrian National Coalition will attend Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Kuwait, Zaman Alwasl source said. Mr. Ahmed Jarba has been invited by GCC leaders to the summit which took place in Kuwaiti on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the...

  A group of Al Jazeera correspondents, Arab leading Satellite Channel, launched an initiative to build 500 rooms near the Turkish borders to host 3000 Syrian refugees at least, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. The ‘generous initiative’ led by the veteran Syrian journalist and...

At least 7 detainees have been killed and 10 others have been wounded Monday in the embattled Aleppo Central Prison by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, activists reported. The intense battles, taking place in close vicinity to the prison and within its outskirts, continue...

It will be "difficult" to remove all of Syria's most toxic chemical weapons from the country by a Dec. 31 deadline, Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the global chemicals weapon watchdog OPCW said on Monday. But the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has...

The head of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group said on Sunday a thaw in relations between Washington and Tehran could strengthen President Bashar al-Assad's hand in Syria's civil war. Ahmed Jarba said a disbursement of Iranian funds frozen in overseas bank accounts as part...

The road needed to ship chemical weapons out of Syria has been seized by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The Damascus-Homs highway had been blocked for around 20 days, preventing the delivery of fuel to the capital, as troops battled with rebel fighters to secure control of...

  The al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria have started working with crime syndicates and racketeering thugs for kidnappings, arms-smuggling, and widespread looting. Syria’s insurgent militias are becoming ever more enmeshed with organized crime, blurring the line...

The push to immunize all children against polio has been hampered by the ongoing crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. WHO and UNICEF have appealed to all parties to cooperate, including through temporary pauses in hostilities where needed, to allow vaccination campaigns to take place...

   Amid news of Assad’s advances in al-Nabk, one of the last rebel-held areas in Qalamoun, activists reported a mounting presence of Iraqi Shi’ite militias for the first time in battlefields far away from the Shiite shrines.    Thu al-Faqar...

Assad government has planned to provide a petition to the international community saying; ‘’Yes for New Presidential Period for Bashar al-Assad in 2014,’’ sources revealed. Syrian employees have no escape from signing the petition under threat of termination, activists said....

  The conflict in Syria today reaches another grim milestone. It started with a day of violence 1,000 days ago, it has grown into a war on childhood that has been characterised by more grim milestones than any other in recent history. Over 1,000,000 children have...

An Iraqi freelance cameraman killed in Syria was buried in his hometown city of Fallujah west of Baghdad, with hundreds of fellow journalists attending the ceremony. Yasser Faysal al-Joumaili was executed by an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria and is the first foreign journalist killed by...