An international peace conference involving Syrian government and opposition representatives will not be held this month, Russian news agency Itar-Tass quoted a source close to preparatory talks as saying on Tuesday. The United States and Russia announced plans in May...
Syrian activists circulated a photo for the commander (Pictured) of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who has been killed in Syria after volunteering to defend a Shi'ite shrine in Damascus, the Iranian Mehr news agency said on Monday. Commander Mohammad Jamalizadeh of the...
Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met U.S. and Russian officials on Tuesday to discuss convening long-delayed Syrian peace talks this year despite disputes over President Bashar al-Assad's future and whether his ally Iran can attend. Hours earlier, Damascus reiterated that Assad will...
People of the prominent Damascus Suburb, Daraya have established a charity institution to look after families of martyrs and wounded, they named it “Ghiath Matar organization,” Sources reported to Zaman Alwasl. The institution relies on donations and charity to...
A rebel group said in a statement it would control a strategic hill situated on Mount Hermon near the occupied Golan Heights. The Islamic Ahrar al-Sham movement announced in a statement, obtained by Zaman Alwasl, the beginning of liberation battle of Hrboun hill from the...
The United Nations warned Monday of a major rise in homeless numbers in Syria, and called for greater UN Security Council pressure to seek access to the war-stricken nation. UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the council that 9.3 million people now need outside help to survive, up...
A commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria after volunteering to defend a Shi'ite shrine in Damascus, the Iranian Mehr news agency said on Monday. Commander Mohammad Jamalizadeh of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the southeastern...
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood in alliance with Islamist groups will announce establishing a new Islamic political party next week called The Justice and Constitution, Promise (al-Waed), well-informed source exclusively told Zaman Alwasl . Syrian MB...
Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Monday that US ties with Saudi Arabia are "strategic and enduring", even as differences on Syria remained after a visit aimed at easing tension. The top US diplomat was hastily dispatched to Riyadh to patch things up after rare complaints from...
Syria has become al Qaeda’s largest safe haven, with more than 10,000 fighters who outnumber the terrorist network’s core organization in Pakistan and its affiliates in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The development, analysts say, provides al Qaeda with a new base from which...
Over the last few weeks, the growing plight of Syria’s civilian population has drawn belated international attention to the country’s failing health system. In late October, in the eastern part of the country, the World Health Organization confirmed an outbreak of polio—a highly infectious,...
The Syrian opposition set terms on Sunday for attending peace talks to end the Syrian civil war, in a move that throws the proposed conference into further confusion after the international envoy said there should be no preconditions. The long-delayed talks — known as...
A Syrian government minister said Sunday that foreign fighters who have come to the country to wage jihad are responsible for the outbreak of polio in the rebel-controlled north. Last week, the United Nations health agency confirmed 10 polio cases in northeast Syria, the first confirmed...
Secretary of State John Kerry is seeking to repair frayed ties with Saudi Arabia over the Syrian conflict and Iran, after making his first visit to Egypt since the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi. The top US diplomat landed in Riyadh late Sunday on the second stop of an 11-day trip...
7 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have been killed after attacking one of their barricades by Free Syrian Army in Aleppo countryside, a day after the threat of Badr brigade commander to revenge from the ISIL over attacking his checkpoints and...
Rebel groups in Aleppo countryside pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-lined group, sources said. 6 rebel battalions and Shariah court of Hayyan village in Aleppo countryside have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-lined group, Jabhat al-Nusra. The rebel groups...
Gulf countries, led by Saudi Arabia, are moving to strengthen their military support for Syrian rebels and develop policy options independent from the United States in the wake of what they see as a failure of U.S. leadership following President Obama’s decision not to launch airstrikes...
Zaman Alwasl has obtained exclusively the Opposition demands and main points to participate in Geneva II which was delivered by Ahmad Jarba, the National Coalition president to the foreign ministers from the Arab League’s member states which will be announced during...
Palestinians Mahmoud and Ahmed fled Syria last month for Egypt, where they paid smugglers to bring them to Europe. Once at sea, they were robbed at knifepoint and herded onto an overloaded boat that sank, pitching over 100 into the sea. The brothers made it back to shore while others...
Secretary of State John Kerry is at odds with several senior State Department officials over whether to press ahead with plans for a high-profile peace conference next month that is designed to put negotiators from Syria’s main opposition groups and the government of Syrian President...
