Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad marks his 48th birthday on Wednesday with a reason to celebrate: the threat of U.S. airstrikes against him has waned, despite ongoing bloodshed and brutality in his country. A Syrian pro-regime site called on residents of the capital Damascus to...

The threat of U.S. air strikes on their country may be receding for now, but Syrians queuing for passports in a central Damascus office were taking no chances. Dozens stood in line for hours on Tuesday, many returning for a second day, seeking passports in case talks over Syria's...

U.N. rights investigators have established that Syrian government forces were almost certainly responsible for two massacres last May in which up to 450 civilians were killed, a report published on Wednesday said. The report documents nine mass killings in all, attributing all but one to...

The United States has fundamentally misread the uprising and subsequent civil war in Syria, the former American ambassador to that country and one of American’s most experienced Foreign Service officers told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. “I think we made a mistake right at the...

Bashar al-Assad's  Air Force Intelligence had penetrated the free army FSA and the Islamic groups from top to bottom, even there are groups fully directed by intelligence forces, a well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl . A spy network within rebel brigades has been...

Russia  has given the United States its plan for placing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal under international control and intends to discuss it on Thursday in Geneva, the Interfax news agency cited a Russian source as saying on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is...

A first group of 107 highly vulnerable Syrian refugees arrived by plane in the northern German city of Hanover today from Lebanon under a special humanitarian programme announced by the German government earlier this year. "The airplane just landed and the families are getting off," UNHCR...

Fighters from an al Qaeda-linked rebel group killed 12 members of the minority Alawite sect in central  Syria  after seizing their village, an opposition monitoring group said on Wednesday. Alawites are an offshoot sect of Shi'ite Islam and have been increasingly targeted by...

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday he hoped that a U.S. promise to pursue diplomacy to remove the threat of chemical weapons in  Syria  was "serious", the state news agency IRNA reported. "I am hopeful that the United States new attitude to ...

  In his presidential Address on Tuesday,  Mr. Barack Obama, President of the United States has mentioned a  mature video footage full of distressed showed a shocked father weeping his daughters whom passed away in the chemical attacks last Wednesday on...

President  Barack Obama  pledged on Tuesday to explore a diplomatic plan from  Russia  to take away Syria's chemical weapons, but voiced skepticism about it and urged Americans to support his threat to use military force if needed. Faced with resistance in polls and...

Sixty-one percent of Americans polled, who watched President Obama's prime-time speech, told CNN that they support his policy towards Syria. Since some surveys showed as much as two-thirds opposition to military action against Syria in the days before the speech, the poll...

  Our team, who's dedicated to search in WikiLeaks documents, has discovered that the name of Zaman Alwasl was mentioned dozens of times in documents published on that famous website, most of them mails the newspaper sent to Ministries and public figures. Messages were in 2007,...

  Hassan, a 25-year-old prisoner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), looks depressed as he trades cigarettes with the 15 other men in his detention room in a makeshift jail in Aleppo province. He says he was headed to Aleppo central prison to deliver his cousin’s release...

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Geneva on Thursday to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to discuss the Syria crisis, a US official told AFP. The news came shortly after Kerry spoke by telephone with Lavrov seeking details of a Russian proposal to neutralize...

  Russian President Vladimir Putin set a condition that endangers the diplomatic initiative to eliminate  Syria ’s chemical weapons, saying it depends on the U.S. and other nations renouncing the use of force against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Putin’s remarks complicate the...

Syria wants to join the chemical weapons ban treaty and is ready to give other countries and the United Nations access to its arsenal, Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said Tuesday. "We are ready to state where the chemical weapons are, to halt production of chemical weapons and show these...

“The Voice of free Syrian children”: charitable humanitarian musical tour, Malik Jandali announced  Award-winning composer and pianist Malek Jandali announced  yesterday in a press conference held in  New York City  the launch of his humanitarian...

Available evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government forces were responsible for chemical weapons attacks on two Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. These attacks, which killed hundreds of civilians including many children, appeared to use a weapons-grade nerve agent, most likely Sarin....

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama  discussed the idea of placing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal under international control on the sidelines of a  G20 summit last week, Putin's spokesman said on Tuesday. "The issue was discussed," spokesman...