(Al Jazeera)- Syrian government forces have launched a counterattack to recapture a gas field seized by the Islamic State group, activists say, even as the death toll from three days of fighting there rises to 270. The intense fighting in the Shaer field, which lies in the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Activists reported about some hospitals’ directors in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli that government’s hospitals will cease admitting Syrian patients of renal failure to have renal dialysis, starting August 2014...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Alwasl has obtained a copy of “Rescue Initiative” by Iyad Qudsi, Deputy of Syrian Interim Prime Minister, forwarded to Syrian Coalition’s new Leaders and members and the Interim Government. Uniting the opposition and leaving the...

(Zaman Alwals-Yusra Ahmed)- A video published on Youtube and Ya-sour website showed shocking images of a double humanitarian crime against childhood. In the video, a toddler, about 2-3 years old, called Abbas, his parents have Lebanese accent. The...

(Translation by Dani Murad) The situation is changing rapidly in northern Syria as rebel fighters have launched widespread attacks against the “Sleeping Cells” of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in dozens of locations in Idlib, and...

(Reuters) - Syria's army clashed with Islamic State fighters outside a government-controlled military airport on Friday, a monitoring group said, as the al Qaeda splinter group seeks to strengthen its grip on the east of the country. Deir al-Zor airport is one of the last key...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian opposition leader Wednesday met with the Interim government's Prime Minister Ahmad Tu’ma in Gaziantep, the border city with Syria, media center reported. The first visit of Hadi al-Bahra, the newly-elected Head of the National...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian National Coalition’s embassy in Doha has forwarded a respond to Zaman Alwasl’s article in regard to renewing Syrian passports in Doha. After official greeting, the letter explains that Embassy is keen to...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Kurds imposed compulsory military service for their men to ward off a push by Islamic extremists in the predominantly Kurdish areas in northern Syria, Kurdish officials said Thursday. The move reflects fears among Syrian Kurds that the ongoing offensive by...

(AFP)- Jihadists on Thursday seized a gas field in the desert region of Palmyra, in central Syria, a monitoring group and the governor of Homs said. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Islamic State (IS) fighters on Thursday morning attacked the Shaar gas...

(AFP)- The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan because of poverty and fear of sexual violence, international agencies said on Wednesday. Save the Children, in a report, "Too Young to Wed," said children marrying in Syria before the...

(Reuters) - Hezbollah and the Syrian branch of al Qaeda have fought a deadly five-day battle in Syria near the border with Lebanon, a Hezbollah source and a fighter for the Nusra Front said on Thursday. Hezbollah is a Shi'ite Muslim militant group that has fought alongside troops...

(Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl)- For many years, even before the current conflict, torture and ill-treatment were consistently reported in regime’s prisons, and detainees were often held beyond the protection...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Alwasl- Key foreign jihadist groups in Syria are planning to merge in one front to face the growing power of the Islamic State, rebel source says. Al mujahedeen army, al Muhajereen Army (Immigrants army)...

Israel's cabinet has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire to end a week of conflict in Gaza that has killed 192 Palestinians, but the Palestinian group Hamas has not officially reacted. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cabinet met...

(Reuters) - A new offensive by al Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State on Kurdish-held areas of northern Syria has triggered a regional call for arms from the Kurds, and Turkish Kurds are coming to their aid. The war in Syria has already drawn in an array of regional players and...

(Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Monday authorized humanitarian access without Syrian government consent into rebel-held areas at four border crossings from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, even though Syria has warned it deems such deliveries incursions into its territory. "The...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Islamic Front, key rebel group in Syria, has issued a statement urging on forming a united military organization to support Syrian revolutionary. The statement signed by the Front’s Shura Council,...

(Reporting by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Dani Murad) National Coalition’s former president expressed his deep remorse for supporting Dr. Ahmad Tomeh, the president of the interim government, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. The...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Lebanon is at risk of crumbling as a state under the burden of 1.1 million Syrian refugees and foreign donors must make good on pledges of support to help it survive the crisis, the top U.N. official in the small coastal country warned on Monday. Political...