U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will discuss the details of the Geneva II Conference with U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi in Paris on Sunday. "We will work on establishing a transitional government with executive powers (just) like what the Geneva I...
Syrian regime forces made advances on Sunday in the town of al-Nabk, one of the last rebel-held areas in Qalamoun region bordering Lebanon, a watchdog said. “There is fierce fighting in al-Nabk between government forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, and...
A top military commander of Hezbollah, which is helping Syrian troops battle rebels, died in fighting Sunday in Syria, a Lebanese security source said. “Ali Bazzi, a high-ranking Hezbollah military commander, was killed today in a combat zone,” the source said without...
The Joint Chiefs of Staff for Free Syrian Army in a statement denied the claims of attacking its depots on Friday near Turkish borders by al-Qaeda and the Islamic Front. The Statement said the Chiefs asked the assistance of the Islamic groups when...
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's local branch in Syria, has sent Al Jazeera exclusive footage of what it said was a drone it shot down while it was flying over Aleppo, saying it was the first operation of its kind for the group. The group said the government of...
When the peaceful uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned bloody more than two and a half years ago, Egypt was a welcome safe haven for fleeing Syrian refugees. The welcome was short lived however when the host nation descended into turmoil of...
More than 70 Saudi clerics in a statement issued recently pledged their allegiance to the Islamic Front calling all Islamic factions in Syria to join newly formed alliance as its chart is distinct and stands on Shariah. IF was formally announced on...
At least 40 bodies of men, women and children were discovered on Saturday in the Syrian town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb, in an apparent new massacre, the Syrian Revolutionary Council reported, following a heavy shelling campaign by the regime’s army. The opposition...
A deadly attack was launched by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime on the town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb on Friday, according to a statement from the Syrian National Coalition (SNC). In the statement, the SNC called on countries of the “free world” to...
Two teenaged Norwegian sisters who ran away from home in October, saying they wanted to help rebels in Syria, are indeed in the war-wracked country, a lawyer for their family confirmed Thursday. The youngest, aged 16, is injured and has to be treated before she and...
Syrian Regime authorities freed Friday Dr. Nael a-hariri, member of the opposition Building Syrian State Movement after 5 days of detention, according to Zaman Alwasl source. The member of the interior opposition movement was arrested by the air force intelligence in...
" Officials from organizations with health-related missions in Syria called Friday for the protection of medical facilities and personnel there. A joint statement by UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the U.N.'s humanitarian operations “strongly condemned” attacks...
An initial IDF investigation into Friday's blast that damaged a military vehicle in the Syrian occupied Golan Heights found that ‘’an explosive device planted on the Syrian side of the border had been detonated by terrorists,’’ according to the Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post....
Militants of The State of Iraq and The Levant captured Friday a military base affiliated to Free Syrian Army in Babska village in Idlib province, Zaman Alwasl source said. The Islamic Moment of Ahrar al-Sham has protected FSA officers who escaped death, as well it has...
Syrian Opposition activists have sparkled major outrage via social media after circulating photos for an old man has been murdered by Iraqi militants in the town of al-Nabk, 68 km (40 miles) northeast of Damascus. Munir Abdul al-Hai (pictured), a man in his sixties has...
A group of nuns from the historic Christian town of Maalula in Syria denied they were kidnapped by rebels, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera news channel on Friday. The brief video shows the women, apparently in good health and comfortable, dressed in black religious garb in a room....
Syrian opposition activists on Thursday accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of again using poison gas in rebel-held areas, saying victims had been discovered with swollen limbs and foaming at the mouth. The activists told Reuters that two shells loaded with...
Syrian President Bashar Assad, two and a half years into a blood-soaked rebellion against his rule, mourned Nelson Mandela's death on Friday, calling his life an inspiration for freedom fighters and a lesson to tyrants. Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died...
Germany says it will take in a further 5,000 refugees from Syria, doubling its current offer of shelter for people fleeing the Arab nation's civil war. The decision was announced Friday at a meeting of officials from Germany's 16 states, which share responsibility for housing...
The checkpoints of Shi’ite Militias have become remarkably widespread in regime-held areas of Aleppo amid decreasing for presence of Assad's forces, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. They wear black costumes with green and red bands, inscribed with sectarian slogans, their most...
