Syria has scattered its stockpile of chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites in a bid to complicate U.S. efforts to track them, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. A secretive Syrian military unit had been given responsibility to shift the arsenal of poison gases and munitions,...

As the threat of an imminent U.S. attack on  Syria  dims, supporters and officials in the regime of Syrian President  Bashar Assad  are quietly worrying about another potential crisis, one that hits even closer to home. Speculation in Damascus that the...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that prospects for a resumption in the Syrian peace process are riding on the outcome of U.S.-Russian talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal that lurched into a second day. As...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin says that Syria's move to join an international convention banning chemical weapons has proven its good faith. Speaking at a summit of an international security grouping dominated by Russia and China, Putin said Friday the move showed that Syria has "serious...

Yara Sabri confirmed on her face-book page that Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” has arrested artist Waseem Mikdad. Yara Sabri, the famous Syrian actress, who is  very well known of her devotion her time to cover the detainees life conditions, has  not...

Secretary of State John Kerry today rejected a call from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the U.S. to drop its threat of force before Syria gives up its  chemical weapons . "President Obama has made clear that should diplomacy fail, force might be necessary to deter and degrade...

      An Islamic group has dominated Oil extraction equipment after capturing an oil field close to the Iraqi borders 4 months ago, senior leader in 'Ahl al-Athar' brigade told Zaman Alwasl.   The technical engineer who works in the oil station...

    Recruits attend a class to be trained as part of a police battalion under the Free Syrian Army's 'Farouq Omar Brigade' at their headquarters in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus September 11, 2013.      

The head of the opposition Free Syria Army, General Salim Idriss, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday that he has intelligence that the Assad regime is moving its chemical weapons out of the country. “Today we have information that the regime began to move chemical materials and...

Al-Qaeda-linked group, the 'State of Iraq and al-Sham' has launched  armed attacks against rebels in al Raqqa and Aleppo, in a statement circulated by social media the ISIS accused Al-Farouk battalion and other brigades of the Free Syrian Army by treason and cooperation with Assad...

  A w ell-informed source revealed to Zaman Alwasl that the political commission of the opposition National coalition has nominated Mr. Ahmed To'ama to be the Interim Prime minister of the Opposition Government.   The vote will be on Friday in the general meeting of...

Syria will start handing over information on its chemical weapons to international groups a month after it signs the Chemical Weapons Convention, President Bashar Assad has told a Russian TV channel. Damascus has agreed to a Russia proposal to put its chemical weapons stockpiles under...

  After a mounting threat of collapsing of the Euphrates River dam that Assad’s forces apparently damaged in air strikes on Sept. 7, a UN mission have visited the site to explore the effects of Bashar al-Assad's bombing days ago, Media center of al Raqqa reported. The...

 Assad forces dropped poisonous gas bombs near Jobar district’s police station early today, causing several non-life threatening injuries. The bombs seem to contain a chlorine substance which caused suffocation, convulsions and extreme sweating. Residents at first feared sarin had...

 Angela Merkel may not personally like Vladimir Putin very much, but the German chancellor is surely pleased the Russian president’s diplomatic efforts have temporarily averted U.S. plans for a military strike against Syria. Constrained by Germany’s jingoistic past and a looming...

A Russian-backed proposal for Syrian President Bashar Assad to cede his chemical weapons to international control was slammed by opposition leader Salim Idriss. Idriss, head of the Syrian opposition's Supreme Military Council, says the effort, proposed by Russian Foreign Minister ...

The United States has reportedly started funneling weapons and technical equipment to rebel fighters in Syria. Citing US and Syrian sources,  the Washington Post  wrote that the CIA had begun delivering shipments of lethal aid in the past fortnight. The newspaper reported on...

U.N. inspectors have collected a "wealth" of evidence on the use of nerve agents that points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people, according to a senior Western official. The inspection team, which is expected on Monday to present U.N. Secretary...

Hunger policy against detainees in Homs central prison to control disobedience Detainees in Homs central prison appealed for help, and directed a message to the Free Syrian Army saying: “your people are dying and they are under real danger, exposed to hunger, thirst, darkness,...

A Syrian rebel commander criticized on Tuesday a Russian plan for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons to avoid a Western military attack as a “dirty deal” and an international maneuver. “What is happening is an attempt to save Obama from a tree he climbed, after that Russia left him...