Russia on Thursday blocked a UN Security Council demand that Syria allow immediate access to thousands of civilians trapped by a government offensive on the city of Homs, diplomats said. Diplomats said Russia’s opposition to the statement proposed by council members Australia and...

 Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Thursday that his government had fended off everything his enemies had thrown at him and that the only remaining threat to his rule was a far-off – and improbable – foreign intervention. In comments to the state-run Al-Thawra...

  The ongoing Coalition meeting in Istanbul to name new leader had witnessed today a brawl between FSA representatives and a member of the coalition at the hotel. Zaman Alwasl reporter said.   Prominent dissident Michael Kilo and Sheikh Salem al-Muslet...

      Syrian National Coalition will adopt the principle of interoperability, rather than elections in coalition, according the prominent Coalition member, Abdul Baset Saida said in an interview with "Zaman Alwasl . The coalition met on Thursday under...

  U.S. diplomatic sources told Zaman alwasl about an American trend, not yet crystallized to topple the Syrian National Coalition for the revolutionary forces and the opposition, ''the alternative new opposition this time might be a military one.   Americans lashed before...

  Canada will accept as many as 1,300 Syrian refugees by the end of 2014, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday in Edmonton.   But the government is relying on private sponsors for the vast majority of those cases.   The federal...

Actor Jamal Suleiman had resigned from National   Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces , 'Zaman Alwasl Arabic' reported. The New member of latest-expanding list has delivered a message to the former President of coalition, Sheikh Mouaz al-Khatib on...

Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached a tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said. At the June 15 rally, Sunni Muslim clerics used the word...

'Banias Butcher' denied in an interview with Zaman alwasl any responsibility regarding the last bloody massacres in Banias, assuring his full right to defend Syria against the Islamists and Jihadis. Mihraç Ural, who is believed to be behind Bayda Massacres in May and...

A powerful car bomb rocked a district of the Syrian capital Damascus overnight, injuring several members of the security forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday . " A large explosion apparently caused by an explosive device placed inside...

  At least 14 people were killed in army shelling on a rebel village near the Syrian capital on Tuesday, as violence raged in flashpoint areas of Damascus and in the central city of Homs, a watchdog said. The shelling comes a day after a powerful car bomb rocked the...

Syrian rebels in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday threatened to seize two Shi'ite Muslim villages that back President Bashar al-Assad unless they surrendered to the opposition. Activists say both Nubl and Zahra villages had been reinforced by Assad's allies in the...

Human Rights Watch has dismissed reports that three Franciscan friars were beheaded in Syria in a graphic video that emerged on YouTube this week. The findings by HRW back claims that the footage was used for propaganda by Bashar al-Assad's regime.  According to an in-depth...

    Islamist rebels in Syria's northern city of Aleppo issued an order on Monday banning women from dressing in what it considered provocative styles, angering some locals who accuse the group of overstepping its powers.   The Islamic law council of Aleppo's...

  National Coalition accused the Assad regime by targeting the state institutions in the city of Homs, particularly the Land Registry building in Homs.   The coalition considered In a statement, that such actions came alongside with regime's attempts to change the...

Intelligence provided by China was utilized by Syria’s air force to bomb a Western weapons shipment on its way to arm the Syrian rebels, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials. WND website reported. The officials said the air strike was carried out Saturday just as the...

 Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee  Syria .  Iraq ,  Jordan , and Turkey  have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of...

The war on the besieged city is fateful,  Head of Homs Local council said  in a message delivered to the national Council and to the Chiefs of Staff ; losing the city will be big loss to the revolution and to the opposition, losing the war will be unbearable tough loss, he...

Social media circulated 'graffiti' photos from Homs by the well-knows FaceBook page "lens of young Homsi". Weam, artist and media activist, with Kurdish roots tried with to send a message that owners of these demolished buildings are still here and who left we come back very...

 National coalition pleas International leader on Homs, Activists warn of hit by chemical weapons . Assad's forces launched a major offensive in the last two days against rebels in Homs, a centre of the two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting...