Three Syrians went on trial in Jordan on Tuesday for allegedly trying to smuggle 36 remote control detonators into their country to help anti-government rebels, a court official said. "The three suspects pleaded not guilty at the start of their state security...

  Al Arabiya TV’s reporter in the Syrian city of Aleppo Mohammad Saeed has been killed by unknown gunmen, the television network reported on Tuesday. Saeed was killed by a hooded man using a silenced gun in the Aleppo village of Hreitan, Syrian opposition activist said....

   UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who arrived in Damascus Monday, believes President Bashar al-Assad could contribute to the transition to a "new" Syria, but not as the country's leader. Brahimi, who was in Syria on the latest leg of a...

Islamist rebels pressed an advance Monday against Bashar al-Assad troops in Homs province aimed at capturing major weapons depots, activist said. Several brigades, among them the Al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) and Jabhat Al-Nusra, seized control of...

United Nations officials confirmed an outbreak of polio among children in Syria on Tuesday, lending urgency to plans for vaccination campaigns there and in nearby countries to try to halt the spread of the disease. Tests confirmed polio in 10 out of 22 children in Deir...

Syria's deputy prime minister, Qadri Jamil, was dismissed from his post, state media said on Tuesday, citing government complaints about his performance and lack of coordination with other officials, Reuters reported.    Jamil had been in Geneva recently and met U.S....

  Reports about missing a rebel commander affiliated to 'Jund Allah', God's Soldiers rally in Idlib countryside. Anas al-Zir, leader of 'Yousef al-Zmeh' brigade, was missed in Sarmin city after his attendenace for military meeting with Jund Allah commanders, source...

Social networks have circulated news about attacking Kaftin village of Druze majority at Jabal al-Zawiya region in Idlib province, by  Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” where they committed a massacre against children, women and the elderly, around 30 people were...

Rebel's Chiefs of Staff has excluded al-Qaeda affiliates from its expansion list, source said to Zaman Alwasl. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in The Free Syrian Army hold consultations meetings for few days, started yesterday  in Antakya, Turkey to discus expanding the body of...

A group of Syrian activists known for its hacking was briefly able to redirect a link on the  @barackobama  Twitter feed to one of its own videos, according to the people who maintain the Twitter feed. The tweet from the account, which is run by Organizing for Action, initially...

  A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war   Fifteen days into his job as  Lebanon ’s top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something big...

Leader of Lebanese Hezbollah movement accuses Saudi Arabia of blocking political solution to the conflict in Syria. The head of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah and key Damascus ally Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of blocking a political solution to the conflict in Syria....

Bashar al-Assad has contracted with North-Korean's pilots to command his war planes after losing the trust in Syrian pilots, veteran Dissident said according to  Deutsche  Press agency.  Dr. Burhan Ghalioun, former National Council leader, revealed on his...

  Rebels are still controlling the northern and eastern parts of the Christian town of Sadad, 60 km east Homs, as the fighting is still continuing,   Zaman Alwasl local reporter said.  Early today, Assad Army forces are said to have retook a Christian town of...

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Damascus on Monday, as part of the next leg of his regional tour to garner support for a peace conference on Syria. Brahimi flew in to Beirut from Tehran and was to travel overland to Damascus the same day, making his first visit to...

  A 35-year-old man was killed in the southeastern Turkish town of Ceylanpinar early on Monday when a stray mortar shell fired across the border from Syria struck a house near the frontier, security sources said. The shell was fired during clashes between Kurdish and...

UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi flew in to Beirut on Monday on his way to Damascus to try to whip up support for a peace conference on Syria, airport sources said.   Brahimi arrived from Tehran, where he said it was "necessary" for Iran, a key ally of the Damascus...

China supports the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to play an role in solving the issue of Syria's chemical weapons, a spokeswoman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.   "The Syrian government has...

Shabiha, Pro-Assad militia has breached a planned truce in al-Waer neighborhood in Homs which was supposed to open all blocked crossings to allow people breaking the siege after 3 week of suffering, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Also, sources said that 7 people have been...

Kurdish militants sought to consolidate their control of an oil-producing region in northeastern Syria  on Sunday after seizing a border crossing with Iraq  from Islamist rebels, activists said. Fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought in...