State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf Wednesday tackled several pressing issues on Turkey. The Deputy Spokesperson denied media reports that the US has frozen its assistance to the Syrian opposition. “Not at all. Not to my knowledge. No, our assistance continues. Ambassador...

Turkey  and  Iraq , both concerned by the rise of al Qaeda in  Syria , said on Friday their strained relations were improving and they would cooperate more closely to limit the spillover from Syria's civil war. The two countries' dealings have been tense in recent...

 Top Republican Guards General has been killed in Moadamiyet al-Sham, l ocal activists said .   Brigadier  Mazhar Ali Suleiman, Head the military campaign on the besieged Suburb was  a valuable target for Free Syrian Army fighters, activists...

Cyber activists have circulated a video posted on YouTube showing rebels capturing a parachute carried with supplies for the Assad soldiers in besieged military base, east Syria. Most of the supplies were for the high ranked officers including food, Tobacco, and two boxes...

Free Syrian Army in a report issued yesterday said it had executed a man, 53, after being charged with rape and killing woman and her daughter in Daraa province, south Syria. The Shariah court found the man guilty and had convicted him to death sentence, the report said....

Seven rebel detainees have been released by principals of the besieged central Prison of Aleppo within 48 Hours for food supply. The swap was coordinated with the Islamic movement of Ahrar al-Sham that said in a statement issued yesterday, ''190 gallons of rice and...

On October 10, the al-Qaida-affiliated jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra announced that it and allied rebels had taken over Daraa al-Balad, the “old town” section of the capital city of Daraa province in southern Syria.  The city is divided into Daraa al-Balad and Daraa al-Mahata, the...

  A team of poets who write lyrics on the spot and an electronica twist help singer from war-torn Syria go global   Bank notes rain down on Omar Souleyman. Beautiful women in silk gowns dance around him. Backed by music of hypnotic intricacy, he...

    Jamal Karsli, a former German MP, with Syrian origins,  a political activist for more than 30 years and a strong supporter to the Syrian revolution since its start on March 15, 2011. Eqtsad, Zaman Alwasl business newspaper, has an opportunity to...

Head of the opposition Interim Government said the International community had asked Syria's main opposition group to not put pre-conditions before Geneva peace conference next November as demanding Bashar al-Assad to leave the power.  Mr. Ahmad Toumeh stated to the...

Unknown armed group kidnapped rebel commander in Manbij north Syria, local sources revealed to Zaman Alwasl. The missing of sheikh Mohamed al-Kanj, leader of Ashab al-Yamin brigade came after an argument between Kanj and the Emire of al-Qaeda affiliated group, State of...

A  video   message purporting to show a Russian man abducted in  Syria  set a deadline of five days for the release of a detained Saudi national in exchange for the Russian's freedom, Reuters reported. The footage posted on YouTube showed a bearded man...

Syrian forces seized a suburb of Damascus on Thursday from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in a push that has shored up government control of the capital's outskirts, state television reported. Assad's forces, backed by Shi'ite fighters from Lebanon,  Iraq...

  Syria's opposition National Coalition is to meet November 9 to decide on the divisive issue of whether to take part in peace talks in Geneva, a Coalition member said Thursday. "We have decided to put off the (Coalition's) General Assembly and political committee...

Much of Syria, including the capital Damascus, was hit by a power cut late on Wednesday after rebels attacked a gas pipeline, state media said. "A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces and work to repair it...

Assad's court freed 'The youngest known convicted prisoner' Tal al-Mallouhi  Syrian First Criminal Court in Homs issued on Wednesday judicial decision to release immediately the youngest known convicted prisoner Tal al-Mallouhi, 22-year-old, after 45 months of imprisonment,...

  The last image of Reuters showing Syrian people running from a fire at a gasoline and oil shop in Aleppo's Bustan Al-Qasr neighborhood October 20, 2013, might be the nearest photo-Story about what is really happening in the most controversial crossing point...

Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria has appointed new Emir for al-Dana town in Idlib countryside after assassinating its emire Abu Abdullah al-Lybi by unknown armed group next to Bab al-Hawa crossing border last week, special source told Zaman Alwasl. The State of Iraq and al-Sham...

  Syrian rebels have circulated footage on the social media showing them playing football in their leisure time. Rebel  FaceBook page quoted the  fighters saying, ''we have to approve that life will go on as well as we surpass pain and sadness;...

Syrian mainstream and Islamist rebels pressed an advance Wednesday against Bashar al-Assad troops in Homs province aimed at capturing major weapons depots, rebels and a monitoring group said. Several brigades, among them the Al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the...