The National Coalition appointed Mr. Asaad al-Achi as its executive director of Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) on Wednesday, source said. Al-Achi, 34, based in Scotland, is a Western-educated accountant and financial...
At least 2,400 Tunisian jihadists are fighting in Syria, most of them rebels affiliated to the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Tunisia’s interior minister said Monday. “According to what we have gathered, there are 2,400 Tunisians who have gone to Syria to fight...
Brazilian football ace Neymar da Silva Santos, commonly known as Neymar, has recorded a video addressing two young boys who fled from Syria’s civil war. Jumar, 7, and Limar al-Najm, 10 had waited outside the entrance of Neymar’s hotel in Brasilia in an attempt to ask him to...
Brussels, June 24 (IANS) The Council of European Union (EU) decided to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on 12 Syrian government ministers, said a statement published on EU's official website Monday. The EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxemburg agreed to "reinforced" EU...
(Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A well informed source from the Joint Chief of Staff of Free Syrian Army , denied all accusations and rumors against the Army Staff, which have been circulated over the...
(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian regime has recruited many females as informers reporting rebels’ and activists’ news and works, as they are less suspicious when they get close or inside the rebels’ gatherings and groups. Rima...
An Islamist rebel group in eastern Syria has beheaded a defected army officer who pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda renegade group the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), a statement said. Shoura al-Mujahideen council said Captain Abu Haroun,...
Syria’s opposition National Coalition leader to visit China on Tuesday, source said. Mr. Ahmed Jarba, who meets the invitation of China’s foreign minister to visit Beijing, is trying to build more ties with Bashar al-Assad’s main ally, especially after a pragmatic statement...
Executive director of National Coalition’s Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) has resigned after months of ‘skirmishes’ with controversial head Suhair Atassi, sources said. Dr. Osama Kadi told Zaman Alwasl that will keep his post until appointing a...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Liwa al-Tobeh, situated in Southern of Aleppo, demanded the National Coalition to return the arms which Ahrar al-Zawiyah have stolen, a source from Liwa al-Tobeh reported to Zaman Alwasl. Earlier, Ahrar Syria Front denied any...
(Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian regime have since the beginning of Syrian revolution tried to increase the religious differences and provoke the sectarian conflict among Syrians, to come in the end and show west...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Militant Islamist groups in Syria are recruiting children as young as 15 and sending them into battle after promising them a free education, a Human Rights Watch report said on Monday. The report said the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which...
(AFP)- Israel carried out retaliatory air raids on Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights overnight after a teenager on the Israeli side was killed in an attack from Syria, the army said early Monday. "The IDF (Israeli army) targeted nine Syrian army positions in response...
Syrian Parliament Member, Ali al-Sheikh, Sunday killed when an Islamist rebel group detonated his car in central Damascus, rebel statement said. The media center of The Islamic Union of Levant Soldiers, based in Eastern Ghouta, said the operation had...
(The Jerusalem Post)- Targets hit by Israeli forces included a Syrian Army command post; missile originally fired from Syrian territory through the border fence, kills 14 year-old Israeli son of Defense Ministry contractor. The Israeli jets...
(Al Jazeera) -Various fighting factions and the Syrian government reached a cease-fire agreement in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, activists and state media said. If it holds, the agreement in the Yarmouk, the largest of nine Palestinian camps in Syria, could...
(Reuters) - An attack from inside Syria on Sunday killed a 13-year-old Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights, the first fatality on Israel's side of the frontier since the Syrian civil war began, relatives and the military said. Israeli tanks fired at Syrian army...
(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Dani Murad) Local sources informed Zaman Alwasl that 325 students left the city of Jaramana, early Friday heading to their hometowns in Eastern Ghouta, after they completed high school exams in all of...
By Kamal Namaa ANBAR, IRAQ(Reuters) - Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The...
The security vacuum in the Middle East that has allowed an extremist group to advance through regions of Iraq and Syria would have opened up regardless of whether the United States had decided last year to back moderate rebel forces in war-torn Syria, President Obama said during...
