Four men aged between 22 and 35 have been arrested in the Paris region for allegedly belonging to a jihadist network sending fighters to Syria, informed sources said Friday. The arrests by investigators from France's intelligence agency DCRI took place on Tuesday...
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have firmly seized the momentum in the country's civil war in recent weeks, capturing one rebel stronghold after another and triumphantly planting the two-starred Syrian government flag amid shattered buildings and rubble-strewn streets....
Rebel groups have destroyed 3 Helicopters and depots of fuel and munitions in al-Nayrab Military air and al-Tabqa air base. In footage posted by activists on the internet showed a huge smoke in the airport sky said to be result of Liwa’a al-Tawhid missiles which had...
Rebel groups in Aleppo have destroyed two Helicopters and depots of fuel and munitions in al-Nayrab Military air. In footage posted by activists on the internet showed a huge smoke in the airport sky said to be result of Liwa’a al-Tawhid missiles which...
Syria's National Coalition has appointed Mr. Muwaffak Nyrabia, as Head of Coalition Bureau in Belgium and Dr. Bassam Said Abdullah to head the opposition office in Germany . Nyrabia, the veteran dissident and former Political prisoner is the representative of foreign...
A well-placed EA correspondent reports heavy clashes on Friday. Hezbollah, Shia militias, and shabiha, pro-Assad militia, are involved as well as the Syrian Arab Army. The Army is primarily taking care of logistics and providing air support. The military is also carrying out...
Turkey on Friday warned that it would not accept this week's declaration of provisional self-rule by Kurds in neighbouring war-torn Syria. "Turkey cannot permit a fait accompli, there is no question of accepting such a thing in Syria," Turkish President Abdullah Gul said in televised...
A Syrian rebel group claims that it has ambushed and killed a group of Russian mercenaries who may have been working for a Chinese security contractor. The jihadist fighters from an Al Qaeda affiliate “Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS)” claim to have killed the...
Albania rejected on Friday a U.S. request to host the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, dealing a blow to a U.S.-Russian accord to eliminate the nerve agents from the country's protracted civil war. Negotiations went down to the wire, delaying the scheduled adoption on...
A Syrian rebel commander in a main Islamist brigade was killed and two others were injured in an air strike by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Aleppo, activists said on Friday, in a setback to rebels defending the city against a loyalist attack. Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub...
The Secretary General of the Syrian Coalition Badraldin Jamous met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Istanbul, who repeated that his Government is waiting for the Syrian Coalition to accept an invitation to visit Moscow, according to a statement by the...
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani accused the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria of “autocracy,” and rejected its unilateral declaration of independence in Syria’s Kurdish northeast. He said the PYD was missing “a golden...
Militant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to al-Qaeda have asked for "understanding and forgiveness" for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man's head. In a public appearance filmed and posted online,...
More than two and a half years into the civil war devastating Syria, the United States and Russia are pushing the combatants to the negotiating table in Geneva, but on terms that mark a shift in favor of Bashar al-Assad against the increasingly fragmented rebels seeking to...
North Korea has denied it is sending military aid to the Syrian government, one of its few close allies, in its battle against rebel forces after media reports said Pyongyang had sent advisers and helicopter pilots. "Some foreign media are floating misinformation...
An armed group broke into the Office of Zaman Alwasl in Aleppo, in search of our reporter, Ra’fat Al-Rifaei, who has been asked for leaving hours before the assault over torrent of threats, late on Thursday. According to eyewitnesses and colleagues...
Long-proposed peace talks on Syria’s civil war will reportedly begin on Dec. 12, according to AFP. Citing the Syrian newspaper Al-Watan, which credited diplomats in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that the date would be...
Satellite photos have confirmed that a target attacked two weeks ago near the Syrian port of Latakia was a battery of advanced anti-aircraft missiles, according to the Israeli magazine, Israel Defense. The battery was in the process of upgrading that would have made...
The Islamic political parties to increase in Syria, days after establishing al- Waad party (The Promise) by Muslim Brotherhood, 40 Islamic dissidents to meet in Istanbul very shortly to put a framework and stucture for a new political party to be known by its Arabic name, ...
Islamist groups in northern Syria are weakening after months of fighting and Kurdish militias are gaining ground, a top Kurdish leader said on Wednesday, vowing to continue their advances. Saleh Muslim, head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Reuters...
