The United States faces "a 10-year issue" in Syria as it weighs how deeply it wants to get involved the country's civil war, the top U.S. military officer    warned in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey told CNN's State of the Union that...

       'The Independent Decision' Bloc is the newest opposition rally founded by 30 members of the Syrian National Coalition. Zaman Alwasl Arabic has exclusively published the founding statement. The new bloc comes day after the election of new...

  Former Coalition president in a message obtained by Zaman Alwasl had accused some members in the coalition by corruption and irresponsibility. Mouaz al-Khatib addressed his colleagues in statement saying that Syrian people very sad and depressed according to the bitter...

Shells smashed into a central prison in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, killing some prisoners, a rights group said Sunday, part of a long battle for control of the ancient city. The explosions killed six prisoners, said the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which...