(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown armed group on Thursday has killed a rebel commander and Syrian journalist in Marrat al-Nu’man in the eastern countryside of Idlib province, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Hussein al-Qasim, commander of ‘Ashab al-Yameen’...
PARIS (AP) — French authorities have arrested a man suspected of being one of the top recruiters of young jihadis for the civil war in Syria, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, describing him as "a particularly dangerous individual." Mourad Fares, 30, was arrested Wednesday...
An Iraqi journalist has been kidnapped by Islamic State militants who are threatening to behead him if he refuses to work for them, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday. Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi, a cameraman, was taken prisoner on September 7 in Samarra,...
By Abu Abdullah Al Horani; Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have decided to abandon the conflict and moved to turkey, because they lost hope in the possibility of victory, while others are...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition’s caretaker government on Thursday has dismissed two journalists working in media center over leaks allegations, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Mr. Ahmed To’meh, the outgoing Interim government prime minister, has fired 5...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels as part of President Barack Obama's broad strategy to combat Islamic State militants who have taken over parts of Syria and Iraq , U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The agreement,...
GOLAN HEIGHTS, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Fijian U.N. peacekeepers, released by al Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Syria, arrived in Israeli-held territory on the Golan Heights on Thursday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. "We opened the border and they...
(Reuters) - Syria's Western-backed National Coalition opposition on Thursday said it was ready to work with the United States against Islamic State militants after President Barack Obama authorised U.S. air strikes for the first time in Syria . Saying it had "long called...
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a campaign against the Islamic State militant group. Obama's decision to launch attacks inside...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Shura council of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood group will discuss a new draft determines Supreme leader’s powers and the electing mechanism, according to copy seen by Zaman al-Wasl....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's armed forces in Qalamoun Mountains have made some tactic withdrawals to reinforce the southern front of Damascus amid cancers of imminent offensive by rebels and Islamist Jihadists, Zaman Al Wasl reporter said....
(Reuters) - The global chemical-weapons watchdog found evidence that chlorine gas was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in northern Syria , where witnesses described poison barrel bombs crashing into their villages from the sky, the agency said on Wednesday in a...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown armed group has assassinated Nusra Front's commander in Jisr al-Shogour near Idlib city on Wednesday. The principal of Sharia in Al-Qaeda Syria’s wing in Jisr al-Shogour were killed when an armed group shot him dead...
(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged President Bashar al-Assad to seek a political solution to Syria's war, saying this would help international efforts against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, al-Hayat newspaper reported on Wednesday. In an...
(IBTimes- Zaid al-Fares)- Like James Foley before him, Steven Sotloff has become the subject of global attention following his tragic beheading at the hands of Islamic State (formerly Isis) militants. The world has united, with total justification, to decry this pointless and...
(AP) — An ultraconservative Syrian rebel group says it has named new leaders, a day after an explosion killed nearly a dozen of its top members. A spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham said Wednesday in a video statement posted online that Hashem al-Sheik Abu Jaber would assumed overall...
SUVA (Reuters) - The head of Fiji's army said on Wednesday that he expected 45 Fijian U.N. peacekeepers seized two weeks ago on the Golan Heights by an al Qaeda-backed militant group, the Nusra Front, to be released within days. "Al Nusra has confirmed to the U.N. headquarters...
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(AFP)- Syrian troops have regained control of villages near a military air base in the central province of Hama, pushing back rebel fighters in the area, a monitoring group said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime troops and pro-regime militiamen had made the...
(Reuters) - An explosion killed the leader of one of Syria's most powerful Islamist insurgent groups Ahrar al-Sham on Tuesday, the group said, and an organization that monitors violence in the civil war said at least 28 of its senior commanders had died. Ahrar al-Sham is a hardline...
