Syria's opposition demanded on Thursday that United Nations chemical weapons inspectors immediately investigate a besieged rebel-held region hit by an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people a day earlier. In Paris, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the...

Israel Intelligence minister says condemnations of Assad regime by international community are mere lip service. Israeli intelligence believes that Wednesday's reports of a chemical attack in Damascus are credible, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday, Haaretz, the Israeli...

The US will not intervene in the Syria conflict because it does not believe anti-Assad rebels would support American interests, its highest ranking military officer wrote in a letter to a congressman. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Barack Obama's chief...

France has said that the international community would need to respond with force if allegations that Syrian government forces had carried out a mass chemical attack on civilians proved to be true. But the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said there was no question of sending troops...

  Syrian activists have recalled back a bloody message by famed Syrian actress which was addressed to Bashar al-Assad, asking the use of chemical weapons to eliminate the Islamists. Now her wish has been achieved, they said. Raghda, 55, who grew up in Aleppo before settling...

 The chemical massacre has pushed the Syrian crisis within the weak opposition coalition into more challenges to approve its effectiveness. Number of the main stream opposition group are discussing what they called a revolutionary choice as a response on Bashar al-Assad's...

The United States refused to set new "red lines" for Syria Wednesday as claims of a horrific chemical arms strike reignited debate over Washington's reluctance to intervene in the civil war. Claims by Syrian rebels that President Bashar al-Assad's forces massacred 1,300 people in a chemical...

Zaman Alwasl knew Muhammed Al-shaar, the representative of Chief of Staff in the National Coalition, resigned from the largest opposition body because he could not offer what he was supposed to offer and because of his desire to return to revolutionaries rank. Al-shaar, the...

Major General Selim Idriss considered al-Ghouta massacre a response to Free Syrian Army heroic achievements in al-Ghouta   and to their resistances to Assad and Hezbollah Forces trials of raiding the towns of  Ghouta. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Revolution Coordinates Union disclosed, Assad Regime's strike on Eastern Ghouta using chemical weapons is to occupy FSA fighters in Ghouta in order diverge attention to what will happen in the next coming days. The RCU confirmed 50 tanks headed to Al-abbasyyin Square to...

Saudi Arabia  called on Wednesday for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss reports of a chemical attack that opposition groups say killed hundreds of people in  Syria , Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said according to Reuters. "It is time for...

At least 1,300 people have been killed in a nerve gas attack on Syria’s Ghouta region, leading opposition figure George Sabra said on Wednesday.  In response, the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting on the subject. “I call on...

Syrian activists said at least  1188  people, including women and children, were killed on Wednesday in a nerve gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on rebel-held districts of the Ghouta region east of Damascus. 140 people killed in Kafr Batna Hospitals,...

The trial of five peaceful activists in Syria on “terrorism” charges tomorrow is further evidence of the increasing and systematic repression against anyone speaking out against human rights violations in the country, Amnesty International said. Mazen Darwish, Hussein Gharir, Hani al-Zitani,...

                                         Syrian Democratic Union invites individuals and political organizations to join its constitutive conference. The conference is to be...

  Twenty militants of Hezbollah, Iran proxy, were killed in an army ambush free Sayyida Zeinab south of Damascus, according SANA al-Thawra. Two day ago, A military commander of Hezbollah was killed in fighting near the Syrian capital and has been buried in his southern Lebanese...

The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has put in place an entry quota of 3,000 refugees a day to cope with an influx of Kurds fleeing the civil war in  Syria , aid agencies said on Tuesday. About 30,000 refugees, believed to be mainly Syrian Kurds, have poured into  Iraq...

This is turning into a dark and nervous summer in Lebanon. Peace depends on maintaining a delicate balance of power between different religious groups, Jeremy Bowen, the Veteran BBC Correspondent said. This summer, the formula isn't working. The reason is the war in Syria. From the...

After a long silence, the Central Leadership for the Syrian Communist Board issued a statement regarding the detention of one of its members, the Lawyer, Amar al-Drubi. Al-drubi got detained while he was leaving to his office in courthouse by a security patrol in 23/05/2013....

Former National Coalition Candidate, and current member, Ziyad Abu Hamdan, confirmed to take a unified stand against kidnapping acts and to fight kidnapping using media and other methods on the ground. In a letter, which Zaman Alwasl obtained, he considered kidnapping, "one of the...