A well informed source revealed to Zaman Alwasl that Palestinians in Egypt are being deported to Ecuador because it does not require a visa for entry. This is brand new way of punishment and suffering Palestinians face. On the other hand, Syrians are deported to...

  Lacking the example of local independent or uncensored media, it would be easy for Syria’s citizen journalists to play an activist role, especially when reporting on human rights abuses in their own country. Instead, they’re embracing the values of accuracy and unbiased reporting as an...

Syria  has handed over information about its chemical arsenal to a U.N.-backed weapons watchdog, meeting the first deadline of an ambitious disarmament operation that averted the threat of Western air strikes. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said...

The numerous militias in Syria have gone from ill-organized neighborhood watch groups to a coherent paramilitary organization. At age 70, Ahmad Saidi took up arms after the slaying of his son, a father of five who was killed when a remote-controlled bomb blew up his car. A neighbor...

  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says woman and two children among victims of soldiers and pro-government militia Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 15 people in a Sunni Muslim village north-west of the city of Hama....

Istanbul will host the founding conference for Syrian Democrats Union for two days between 28 - 29 September under the leadership Of Michael Kilo, the veteran dissident and former political prisoner .   The conference will come after a...

 Zaman Alwasl  exclusively  publishes the latest decisions were issued by the main stream opposition in Istanbul meeting  in September 15.  The first decision to entrust Dr. Jalal Khanji forming a committee to stand on the situation of...

 A month after rockets carrying chemical payloads rained down on the suburbs of Damascus, doctors say hundreds are still suffering the ill effects of sarin poisoning. But the horror of the gas attack is being overtaken by continuing shelling and airstrikes, as well as by malnutrition and...

As social media abound with horror stories of jihadists murdering minorities in Syria, a group of elderly Christians in Aleppo and the rebels who care for them portray a different reality. They object to attempts, including by President Bashar al-Assad, to portray everyone fighting to...

Pro-Assad social media reported killing of 23 soldiers of Assad forces and its backed militia, Shabiha, near the city of Mesiaf in Hamah Province. The clashes took place near the christian city of Mhardeh between rebels and 'al-Bustan' association militants- pro-Assad...

  Syria was there in many artistic works have been presented in "Biennale” festival taking place in Istanbul in Turkey. The Turkish artist "Antonio Kosantino” participated in two pictures, one of them was a scene from Banias, the Syrian costal city, while the...

      Al-Islam Brigade denied in a statement the call for mobilization and asking Ghouta's youth to join immediately the ranks of rebels on the battlefronts within 24 hours or will be there by force.  Zahran Alloush, Leader of the Islam Brigade said we didn't sign...

 Syria has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday. Spokesman Michael Luhan told The Associated Press that the declaration is "being reviewed by our verification division." The...

Syria’s opposition National Coalition on Friday condemned attacks by al-Qaeda affiliates on rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The coalition said recent violence carried out by loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on the FSA was entirely reprehensible. “The...

    Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa's novel "In Praise of Hatred" is in the list of "Top 100 Novels of All Time" with George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Emily Bronte, E. M. Forster,...

    Jihad is no more a choice, according to a statement issued by Shariah Authority of Liwa'a al-Islam (Islam Brigade)  and other Jihadist groups  in Ghouta and Damascus suburbs. The circular demanded all Young men who born between (1994 -1983)...

Islamist rebels from the Russian Caucasus who are fighting alongside Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria could pose a serious security threat to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, analysts say. Russia has pulled out all the stops to host the Olympic Games, its first major international sports...

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said Thursday his government was ready to "help facilitate dialogue" between the Syrian government and the opposition. "We must join hands to constructively work toward national dialogue, whether in Syria or Bahrain. We must create an atmosphere where peoples...

 A ceasefire has been reached between the Free Syrian Army and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in the town of Azaz, near The Turkish borders under the patronage of al-Tawhid brigade,  according to activists .   Details of ISIS &FSA deal;...

  Russia is willing to participate in the transportation and destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, but only as part of an international coalition, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. Shoigu's comments at the Valdai forum in Russia's Novgorod region --...