Mortar shells killed a Saudi man in the Syrian city of Aleppo last Wednesday after his father and brother both died fighting in the country last year. Miteb Fayiz Miteb Al-Hamdan Al-Sarhani, believed to be in his 20s and from Sakaka in Al-Jouf province, went to Syria last...

( New York Post )-  Robin Williams has inspired Syrian rebels fighting both the Assad government and the Islamic extremists establishing a repressive religious regime across a wide swath of Syria and Iraq. A photograph emerged Saturday showing a group in Kafranbel,...

(AFP)- At least 31 Islamic State militants were killed in Syrian air force raids Sunday in the northern province of Raqa, a stronghold of the jihadist fighters, a monitoring group said. "The regime carried out 13 raids on the city of Raqa and 11 on the town of Tabqa in Raqa...

SWEIDA (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 15 people, including 7 Druze clerics, were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday when al-Qaeda-linked group backed with tribes’ fighters stormed Deir Dama village near Sweida city, activists said. Zaman Alwasl reporter...

(Zaman Alwasl)- 'No negotiations took place between Radical Islamic State group and rebel factions in Aleppo province,' a rebel commander in West-backed Free Syrian Army said. Abu al-Waleed (Nom de guerre) says to Zaman Alwasl that IS has no...

    SWEIDA (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 15 people, including 7 Druze clerics, were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday when al-Qaeda-linked group backed with tribes’ fighters stormed Deir Dama village near Sweida city, activists said. Zaman...

Islamic State jihadists have killed more than 700 members of a tribe in eastern Syria in two weeks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. Among the members of the Shaitat tribe killed were 100 fighters, but the rest were civilians, the Britain-based...

(Al Jazeera)- Syria's opposition has called for international intervention targeting the Islamic State group, just days after the US began limited strikes against fighters from the same group in neighbouring Iraq. Earlier, US officials had asked the Syrian opposition to...

AFP- Syrian rebels on Saturday were defending Marea, one of their main strongholds in the north, against a rapid advance by Islamic State jihadists, a monitoring group and an activist said. The opposition Syrian National Council in exile called for the international community to...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- It seems that protesting against Bashar al-Assad has begun to be intensified in the Alawite villages more than ever before especially after increasing in the amount of their lost of fighters and Shabiha. this time,...

By Al Hussein Al Shishakli (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 27 opposition figures have nominated themselves to lead National Coalition’s interim government according to Friday’s list which seen by Zaman Alwasl. The most likely candidates are form government’s head Dr. Ahmed...

(AFP)- At least 22 people were killed Friday when a car bomb exploded in front of a mosque in Daraa province of southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Among the dead in the blast in the rebel-controlled town of Namar were a woman and a child, the...

(Reporting by Zeina AL Chofi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- It is well known that fighters have relied on tunnels to achieve much important operation against regime. The most important ones were exploding TAMECO building in Mleiha and...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday took control of two strategic villages in Hama province as regime warplanes rocked towns the western northern countryside in response, activists and monitoring group said. Activists said controlling...

(Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- Naser al-Noqqari, a Syrian opposition figure from Alawite sect was subject to abduction and attempt of assassination two weeks ago, by people he described as “an Assad's...

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(Reuters) - Syrian government forces backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah took control of a town just outside Damascus from Islamist fighters on Thursday, a blow to the rebels who had held it for more than a year. Syrian state television broadcast showed government soldiers in the...

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  (Zaman Alwasl)- As the Islamic State group is making rapid advances in northern Aleppo, key rebel factions have formed a joint command room to stop IS invasion which may reach border crossing with Turkey as well may reflect a humiliating defeat on rebels. Sources...

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