Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels and made a symbolic visit to a town once overrun by insurgents but now mostly retaken by his army. The visit to the battered town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, and a defiant speech illustrate...

  Local activists in the city of Homs said 22 were killed and  70 people were wounded after rocket hit Al-Waer neighborhood .   The savage offensive By the Assad forces on al-waer neighborhood came after the huge explosion in Munitions depot in...

 Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, local Activists reported. The explosion occurred in the south-eastern district of Wadi al-Dhahab, which the army has taken over, the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels in a devastating 28-month-old civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and sent nearly two million fleeing abroad. Insurgents have seized large swathes of territory, but Assad's forces...

UN inspectors will investigate three sites in Syria where chemical weapons attacks were alleged to have occurred "as soon as possible", the UN said Wednesday. The move follows a deal the UN reached with Damascus last week . UN inspectors will go to Syria to...

 Fierce shelling on al-Mashhed neighborhood in the city of Aleppo had killed 5 people at least and dozens wounded, l ocal sources reported to Zaman Alwasl . According to activists there's no armed presence in the neighborhood which is dedicated to the relief work only....

 Leaked document by the regime military police, permits to deliver a detainee corpse  to his family  after 7 months since his death. The paper clarified that the victim was arrested in Intelligence Branches, his death date was 20-11-2012 and the date of delivering...

French University to provide scholarships for the top students at baccalaureate in Liberated Syria, an official source said   The French Strasbourg University will provide 4 scholarships for the top students at baccalaureate of 2013 in Liberated Syria, an official source in...

 The Free National Rally for workers in the Syrian state institutions denounced what circulated in social media and news websites that its president and Syria’s defected former prime minister, Riyad Hijab had sent a congratulation letter to PYD Leader regarding the claims of  'new...

  American intelligence analysts have concluded that a recent Israeli airstrike on a warehouse in Syria did not succeed in destroying all of the Russian-made antiship cruise missiles that were its target, American officials said on Wednesday, and that further Israeli strikes are likely....

Pau Gasol, National Basketball Association (NBA) champion and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ), has wrapped up a visit to Iraq by urging additional support for the hundreds of thousands of Syrian children forced out of their homeland by conflict. “I met children who...

 Assad troops attacked rebel positions outside Khan al-Assal on Wednesday as they seek to recapture the northern town at the center of rival chemical weapons accusations, a watchdog said. Fierce fighting erupted on the outskirts of the town, which the rebels seized on Monday of...

  Veteran dissident and Coalition member, Dr. kamal Allabwani, have proposed a roadmap to regain the control in the liberated areas . Zaman Alwasl publishes the main points of Allabwani plan .   The goal is to build real authority on the...

The wife of a slain Syrian political analyst and ardent supporter of President Bashar al-Assad was charged in Lebanon on Wednesday with incitement to murder, a judicial source told AFP. Siham Younis’s brother was indicted on the same charge, while her nephew was charged with the murder of...

The Philippines will likely keep its peacekeeping forces in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for six more months after securing U.N. assurances for the safety of its 342 soldiers in the ceasefire zone, Manila's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Albert del Rosario said Manila was...

The 5 July attack on a munitions storage facility near Latakia in Syria was far more extensive than previously believed, suggesting it was not launched from a submarine as claimed by some sources, according to  IHS Jane's  satellite imagery analysis. The incident was first revealed...

The lawless conflict in Syria is rekindling dangers -- from disease to forms of political violence -- that have been dormant for decades, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Union's Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid, and Crisis Response, told  FP  on Monday....

Huge rally in Tehran after media accuses rebels of damaging Damascus burial site of Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter. Thousands of protesters have gathered in a central Tehran square on the anniversary of the death of the first Shia Imam to demonstrate against damage to a gravesite in...

A source from the political board of the National Coalition, denied what 'New York Times' reported about the opposition participation in the peace conference in Geneva ''with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria without preconditions.'' Zaman Alwasl source said...

Seven children in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo and another four in Homs in the centre were among 17 civilians killed in air raids on Tuesday, a watchdog said. The deaths in Homs come as troops pressed an offensive against remaining rebel areas there, while in Aleppo province, the...