Troops backed by Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters and other pro-regime militiamen on Thursday retook Sbeineh, a major rebel enclave south of Damascus, a monitoring group and state television said. "Sbeineh was one of the most important...
Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria has adopted the car bomb which killed at least eight security personnel on Wednesday in an attack on a military intelligence building in the southern Syrian city of Suweida, which has been largely peaceful during the Syrian civil war....
The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant captured the main power zone in Aleppo, killing more than 20 soldiers of Basher al-Assad troops, reliable source confirmed to Zaman Alwasl. In response, Assad's warplanes waged violent raids on the zone what may damage the power...
Assad forces are trying to commit more massacres in the Central Prison of Aleppo by shelling the detainees' chambers where a state of rebellion is prevailed within the political prisoners, according to prominent activist. Yet, one prisoner has been killed...
Haytham Manna, the head of overseas department in the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), denied meeting Rifaat al-Assad in Geneva on Wednesday. He has expressed his surprise of that rumors, as he is a human right activist, and a member of Arab...
A car bomb killed at least eight security personnel on Wednesday in an attack on a military intelligence building in the southern Syrian city of Suweida, which has been largely peaceful during the Syrian civil war. “A suicide attacker detonated himself in a car bomb in front of the...
The revolutionary military council in Aleppo, has chosen the colonel Abdul Salam Hamidi as an interim head for the council in Aleppo, after Abdul Jabbar al-Qaidi resignation. Oaidi announced his resignation on Sunday as a protest against letting down the Syrian people by the...
The chairman of Joint Chiefs of Rebels Staff denounces the claims of being America's Man or even being backed by the United States, assuring that his is a proud of being only Syrian. ''I am doing my best to support the rebels on the battle ground,'' Gen. Salim Idriss stated...
We have, in the first part of this report, presented the theory that Syrian opposition accept the most, which assumes Syrian regime and the Syrian-Iranian allies support and finance Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” and uses it as a Trojan Horse to defeat the revolution...
World powers failed Tuesday to set a date for a long-delayed Syria peace conference, as deep divisions persisted between rival camps over the conditions for their participation. "We were hoping that we'd be in a position to announce a date today, unfortunately we're not," UN-Arab...
Deep in the desert and far from his former base of power, ousted President Mohammed Morsi is being held in a sprawling penitentiary that is notorious as one of Egypt's highest-security prisons. The move appears aimed not only at isolating him from other Muslim Brotherhood leaders who...
Russian representatives and members of the Syrian opposition are set to meet in Geneva Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Russian media. "We will hold a whole series of contacts with the Syrian opposition," he was quoted as saying late Tuesday by the Interfax...
A Kurdish mayor on hunger strike in Turkey to protest the building of a barrier on the border with Syria accused Ankara on Tuesday of putting up a "wall of shame". Ayse Gokkan of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (BDP), who has been on hunger strike for seven days, says the wall...
The interior ministry in war-torn Syria is advertising for musicians to join the police band, state news agency SANA said Tuesday. "Citizens who know how to play an instrument and have completed their education to age 16 can audition to join the police band," said a statement. The...
Egypt’s ousted President Mohammad Mursi spent his first night in a civilian penitentiary in a hospital room after he complained he wasn’t feeling well, senior security officials said Tuesday. The Interior Ministry denied that the 62-year-old...
Paying for medicines and medical treatment has become one of the most difficult issues that Syrians face since the crisis began. The local market has been severely affected and many medicines have become prohibitively expensive as most of the pharmaceutical factories have been either...
Warring factions hold truce to allow giant bronze creation to be set up overlooking ancient pilgrimage route A London-based charity has erected a giant bronze statue of Jesus on a Syrian hilltop after organising a truce between warrring factions to safeguard its passage...
Prominent Media Activist Hadi al-Abudllah has been wounded by a fragment Monday during the battles of Mahin depots, east Homs. Bashar al-Assad war planes have stormed the rebels including al-Abudllah in response to fall of the major weapon depots of Mahin under rebels'...
Syrian mainstream and Islamist rebels pressed an advance Monday against Bashar al-Assad troops in Homs province after controlling the major weapons depots near Mahin village, senior officer in rebels' commandos Units (Maghawir) told Zaman Alwasl. Over two weeks...
In new statement by the former Revolutionary Military Council in Aleppo," Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Akaidi, obtained by Zaman Alwasl, said he will not give up fighting as he will be among rebels everywhere until the victory of Syrian people revolution. Aqaidi who...
