Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Muslim Brotherhood group is facing a severe financial crisis, according to documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. According to semi-official letter submitted by senior member...
(Reuters) - Syrian Kurdish fighters have halted an advance by Islamic State fighters to the east of a predominantly Kurdish town near the border with Turkey , a spokesman for the main armed Kurdish group said. "Fierce clashes are still under way but the ISIS (Islamic State)...
(Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday his nation would not launch air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants based in Syria despite having bombed a suspected target of the group in northern Iraq last week. Islamic State is a hard-line Sunni...
Germany will not arm Syrian Kurdish forces fighting ISIL because of the risk of weaponry falling into the wrong hands, the country’s foreign ministry said. "The risk of the seizure of German weapons by the ‘wrong’ groups is way too big,” Deputy Spokeswoman Sawsan...
(Zaman Al Wasl) – Douma, the rebel-held city northeast Damascus, have witnessed on Monday the first protest against rebels, urging them to leave the embattled city to avoid more killing of civilians by regime troops who claimed striking rebel...
(Zaman Al Wasl) – A powerful car bomb killed senior rebel commander of U.S.-backed Hazm movement In Idlib province on Monday, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Khaled Ahmed, head of security battalion of Hazm movement, was killed when unknown group...
More than 130,000 Syrian refugees fleeing ISIL have crossed into Turkish territories since Friday, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday. Kurtulmus was attending a symposium on Turkish-Japan relations at the Ankara-based think...
ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Workers of Civil Defense in rebel-held Aleppo city carried out a sit-in on Sunday, protesting salaries’ delay by Opposition’s Interim Government. Civil Defense ‘soldiers’, mostly university students and human...
Hania, Greece (A Jazeera) - When Doa al-Zamel and her fiance embarked on a voyage across the Mediterranean in an Egyptian fishing trawler, they felt their dream was coming true. "We were going to be married in Italy, and then we would live in Europe - we...
KUCUK KENDIRCILER, Turkey (AP) — The number of refugees seeking shelter in Turkey from the Islamic State group's advance across northern Syria has hit 100,000 in less than a week, an official said Sunday. The head of Turkey's disaster management agency, Fuat Oktay, said the figure...
Syrian-Turkish Borders (Zaman Al Wasl) At least 2000 families fled northern countryside of Hama province to Syrian refugee camps on the Turkish border as heavy clashes between Islamist rebel groups and regime armed forces enter second month....
(Zaman Al Wasl) – Commander of Eastern Ghouta rebels mourned in statement posted online, killing of senior commander in Douma, the rebel-held city northeast Damascus on Sunday. Zahran Alloush, the commander Islam Army and United Military Command of...
Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Editing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Number of people with amputation in Syria reached to 25 thousand since 2011 according to medical statistics. Most amputations resulted from mines, cluster bombs, rockets and mortar...
BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Kurdish fighters raced from Turkey and Iraq into neighboring Syria on Saturday to defend a Kurdish area under attack by Islamic State militants. As the fighting raged, more than 60,000 mostly Kurdish refugees streamed across the dusty and barren border into...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Founder of rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Saturday said that planned U.S. airstrikes will eliminate Syrians’ revolution as it will strengthen Bashar al-Assad and his key ally, Iran. Syria's army defector Colonel Riad al-Asaad, who met with National Coalition’s...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Secretary General of Syrian National Coalition has refuted statements carried by veteran opposition figure, calling for joint government with Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Mr. Nasr al-Hariri, NC Secretary General, said in statement...
Damascus, Sep 20 (IANS) Syrian forces Saturday started a wide-scale offensive on a key rebel-held Syrian city northeast of the capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Syrian Air Force carried out eight airstrikes on Adra and the nearby Tal Kurdi,...
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey over the past day, fleeing an advance by Islamic State fighters who have seized dozens of villages close to the border, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Saturday. Turkey opened a...
By Lama Shammas and Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A joint campaign by Syrian activists in Idlib, Homs and Aleppo calling for judging the Interim Government over the spoiled vaccines that led death of dozens of children in Idlib countryside....
(Al Jazeera)- The Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's wing in Syria, has killed one of ten Lebanese soldiers it had been holding in captivity, Lebanese security sources and a statement on Twitter said. The statement, posted on Friday by an account affiliated with the group, said the soldier had...
