Assad army troops and Shia fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured two southern suburbs of Damascus on Friday, killing at least 70 people, opposition activists said to Reuters. The fighters, including some from the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah and Iraqi...

   UNICEF has said that the child refugees who fled Syria's war are vulnerable to exploitation including early marriage, domestic violence and child labour, despite efforts to keep them in school. More than one million children, some without parents or close...

International inspectors have so far visited three sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program, a spokesman said Thursday, as the team races to destroy the country's stockpile and delivery systems amid a raging civil war. Underscoring the complexity of the mission, a regime warplane...

Al-Qaeda linked-groups with FSA rebels recaptured  a strategic town in northern Syria,  field sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The Islamic State in Iraq and and al-Sham  and Jabhat al-Nusrah have controlled  Khanasir, a town that sits on the government supply...

  Free Syrian students Union stated via social media that the Turkish Government would accept the Syrian Students who got the high school certificate in rebel-held areas under the supervision of opposition National coalition in its universities and educational institutions....

The Pentagon is suggesting the world's chemical weapons watchdog use a U.S.-made mobile destruction unit in  Syria  to neutralize the country's toxic stockpile, officials told Reuters. It gave a briefing on the unit on Tuesday to officials at the Hague-based Organization for...

 Syrian air raids on rebel positions in the northern Aleppo and southern Daraa provinces killed 30 people on Thursday, including civilians, a monitoring group said . With the world's attention trained on Syria's chemical weapons, set to be destroyed by...

  Footage has surfaced on the internet showed militants of Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, executing wounded Syrian rebels  the border city with Lebanon, Qusayr. '' We are killing them for the sake of God,'' one of militants said, without any mercy, many bullets were fired on rebel...

Translation from Arabic by Yusra Ahmed - Military and Local councils of al-Zara village near Tal-kalakh appealed to the National Coalition and for all humanitarian organizations to interfere as soon as possible to save thousands of lives of this region. The appeal,...

   Rebels of Salah al-Din neighborhood in Aleppo achieved an important progress, field source told Zaman Alwasl. Free Syrian Army Fighters have made gains near 'Sahabi' Bilal's Mosque, which is very close from the base of Assad forces in Hamdaniya stadium....

Al-Qaeda linked-groups with FSA rebels are very close to retake   a strategic town in northern Syria,  field sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The Islamic State in Iraq and and al-Sham  and Jabhat al-Nusrah have cut off Assad forces' only supply route out of...

40 militants from the Iranian-backed militias, Hezbollah and Abu al-Fadhel al-Abbas have been killed in rebels' ambush near the Shiite Shrine, Sayyedah Zeinab in Damascus suburbs.   Hezbollah have been battling alongside Syrian regime forces in an attempt to...

Two mortar bombs fired from  Syria  hit an Israeli military post on the occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday, wounding an Israeli soldier, in an incident that drew Israeli return fire, the military said. Initial reports suggested the mortars were stray fire from Syria's civil...

The head of the Syrian opposition coalition’s interim government, Ahmad Tohmeh, has aired his thoughts on the U.S.-Russian deal to destroy the Syrian regime’s chemical stockpile within a year. In an interview with Al Arabiya, Tohmeh said the deal was reached between the two parties in a...

It isn't exactly Superman-like X-ray vision, but cheap, low-power Wi-Fi technology is gaining more attention as a remote sensing tool, according to Cnet website. Do you really wish you had X-ray vision? Sure, it would be fun to see what your neighbors are doing behind those walls -- until...

The head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog called Wednesday for a temporary ceasefire in Syria's civil war to ensure that disarmament deadlines are met. “I think if some temporary ceasefires can be established, I think those targets could be reached,” Organisation for the...

    Al-Qaeda linked-groups launched suicide bombs against Syrian regime north Syria Sources loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and and al-Sham said ISIS's Jihadist in cooperation with Jabahat al-Nusrah had carried out a 'Martyrdom Operation by explosive belts...

  "Lessons of the Egyptian Experience ", a  special paper attributed to the 'Neo-Conservatives' of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood Movement, demanded being cautious from Saudi Arabia and to deal with the revolution with 'Stock market' logic. The paper which has...

  In better times, Idlib Province in northwestern Syria was a major production center for olives, cotton, fruits and textiles. But since the early days of the bloody conflict in Syria, it has been a rebel stronghold and the scene of heavy fighting. Civilians fled the carnage...

The official Twitter page of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus posted a photo gathered leaders from the Syrian opposition between them the chairman of rebels' Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Salim Idriss with Mr. Robert Ford the U.S. ambassador to Damascus was took in Istanbul ....