Syria's military pounded rebel bastions in Damascus on Tuesday and   Saudi Arabia   demanded an arms embargo on what it called President Bashar al-Assad's genocidal and illegitimate regime. Attacking  Iran , Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah for supporting Assad,...

    The  Syrian  regime is using its sweeping Counterterrorism Law and its recently established special court against human rights defenders and other peaceful activists. On June 26, 2013, the court will resume the trial of Mazen Darwish and four of his...

    Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) in Aleppo suffered gunshots by the Assad forces in front of Aleppo Central Prison, sources revealed to Zaman Alwasl. SARC-Aleppo has begun two days ago sending humanitarian aids to Aleppo Central Prison in a convoy, after...

The European Union said it supports political dialogue for Syria but noted its ongoing concern about the regional threat from civil war. The EU said it supports U.S.-Russian plans to find a political solution to the crisis in multilateral talks in Geneva. A series of U.N. reports in June...

      Well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl that Muslim Brotherhood Movement in Syria would establish a political party with moderate principles. Some of the founders are already members in Syrian National Council like Dr. Mohamed Walid and Simon Maajon,...

    Commander of the rebels’ Military Council in Aleppo denied what had said through the social media about receiving weapons shipment by the Chief of Staff commander, Major General Salim Idriss.  Colonel Abdul-Jabbar al-Aqidi said The photo showed Gen. Idriss...

The Syrian regime will not go Geneva talks to hand over power and the opposition should not “bother” going if they expect President Bashar al-Assad to resign, Syria’s foreign minister said on Monday. Walid al-Muallem said Assad will not step down. “If your condition is President Assad’s...

“We now have supplies from Saudi Arabia,” a rebel source said. “We have been told more weapons are on their way, even higher-end missiles.” At the G8 this week Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, condemned the West’s attempts to send arms to the opposition, even though he did not rule out...

   Regime forces assisted by Hezbollah Militia have perpetrated another massacre, this one in the village of Mazraa north of Khan Asser in Aleppo province, killing more than 50 civilians, including women and children, aged between 13 and 60, Activists reported.  The...

Syrian rebels need to wrest back control of territory held by Islamist militants whose involvement in the conflict gives Bashar al-Assad a pretext for more violence, French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday. Radical Islamist groups such as the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front have...

  Walid Safour, National Coalition representative in London revealed to Zaman Alwasl by Phone that Coalition had lost its office according to funding problems since May 7. The British Association for Support the revolution has stopped its funding to London Office without disclosing...

A leading Syrian opposition figure slammed the decision of the Friends of Syria meeting to arm the rebels, calling the "ridiculous" idea would prolong the crisis and give rise to violence. "We think that the decision of the Friends of Syria meeting to arm the rebels reflects the Western...

The ambush was a simple affair, compared to some of the complex and brutal operations devised in Syria’s civil war. But in a society whose divisions are historic, even if they have only now exploded like a leaky petrol tanker, the circumstances were unusual. The target was a Sunni Muslim...

The Knights of Malta are setting up a mobile clinic for injured Syrians just five kilometres outside the war-torn country, in keeping with their tradition of defending the sick and displaced. The €1.7 million project consists of a 24-bed clinic in containers near the Kilis public...

  The revolutionary Rally of Talkalkh, border city, warned of new copy of Qusayr massacres after fierce campaign by Assad's forces and its militias. Shabiha, militia controlled by Assad, has occupied three neighborhoods of Talkalakh, Homs province in western Syria...

Syrian opposition fighters attacked two security compounds in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least five people, opposition activists in the capital told Reuters news agency. Fighters attacked a compound in the district of Rukn al-Din with explosives and another in Bab Musalla with mortar...

  In remarkable move the Kurdish civil society of Amouda city, north east Syria; have protested in solidarity with the detainees in the PYD prisons. The open sit-in started week ago demanding release of detainees in the Kurdish chambers of PYD. Activists said '' We need our sons...

   President   Barack Obama ’s decision to send some light weapons to Syrian rebels may be too little and too late to thwart a regime offensive to retake Aleppo, the nation’s largest city and commercial capital.   Regime forces supported...

  Western and Arab countries have agreed to give urgent military support to Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad, and to channel that aid through a Western-backed rebel military command. In a statement following talks in Qatar on Saturday, ministers from...

 Unless the bloodshed in Syria stops, the region could descend into a chaotic sectarian conflict, Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday, as he called for an urgent political resolution to the war that has dragged on for two years and claimed 93,000 lives. The top U.S....