Polio Control Task Force announced that 1,393,173 children have been vaccinated during 6 days within the sixth round of the mobile polio campaign in Syria, which covers the liberated areas in seven governorates: Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Deir al Zour,...
Baghdad (AFP) - The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant posted pictures online of militants bulldozing a berm dividing Iraq and Syria, symbolising its goal of uniting its forces in the two countries. The jihadists could be seen clearing a road through the berm, before...
(Reuters) - U.S. arms supplies to Syrian rebels may create Somali-style warlords and are undermining Washington's allies in the rebels' exile military command, the former Syrian army general who leads it said. Brigadier General Abdelilah al-Bashir, who defected in 2012 and led...
Supreme Military council of rebel Free Syrian Army has nominated Gen. Abdul Aziz Shlal to head Defence Ministry in the opposition government, source told Zaman Alwasl. The general commission of National Coalition will vote on the...
(AFP)- Western countries that back the revolt in Syria have started to shift position on the conflict because of the danger posed to them by jihadists, according to President Bashar al-Assad. "The United States and the West have started to send signs of change. Terrorism is now...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Opposition activists said fighters of al-Qaeda- affiliated group took control of Um Sharshouh village in the northern countryside of Homs province. Early today, al-Nusra’s explosives-laden vehicle has exploded and killed several...
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say a coalition dominated by Islamic rebel factions in Syria has announced a new push to dislodge fighters from a rival, al-Qaida-inspired group from the northern province of Aleppo. Wednesday's announcement, reported by the Britain-based Syrian...
(AFP)- International prosecutors said on Tuesday it is still possible to go after those responsible for war crimes in Syria despite Russian and Chinese efforts to block cases being referred to the International Criminal Court. "Just because we have had one veto in the (UN)...
BEIRUT (AP) — An offensive by a breakaway al-Qaida group in eastern Syria against Islamic rebel factions has killed more than 630 people and uprooted at least 130,000 since the end of April, an activist group said Tuesday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's campaign in the...
(Reporting by Aabed Mellhem; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Clashes have broken up between fighters of FSA and other Islamic battalions from one side, against ISIS from the other, in Tal Sha’eer and Tal Jijan villages in Aleppo's countryside....
(Zaman Alwasl)- Rebels of the embattled neighborhood of al-Waer near the central city of Homs have refused the Iranian mediation over ceasefire agreement, according to video statement. A document, obtained by Zaman Alwasl, showed main...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Al-Qaeda renegade group took control of Al-Rabiea’ town and its crossing border with Iraq after fierce clashes with the Iraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga units on Tuesday, Zaman Alwasl correspondent reported. Several Iraqi army...
(By Al Hussein Al Shishakli- Special to Zaman Alwasl) A prominent Muslim Brotherhood figure quitted Syrian National Coalition in protest against congratulating Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on his inauguration as president of Egypt by the opposition leader...
The International Committee of the Red Cross and Syria's Red Crescent have made rare aid deliveries in rebel-held territory in northern Aleppo province with government consent, a spokesman said Monday. "Together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), we were able to deliver...
The Interim Government has not refused to allocate salaries to the families of Civil Defence martyrs in Aleppo, an opposition senior official told Zaman Alwasl . The official says the government is in process of issuing a new law to guarantee the rights of...
The decision by Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group to join the civil war in neighboring Syria and fight along President Bashar Assad's forces was a historic and moral "mistake" toward the Syrian people, a leading Lebanese politician has said. The harsh criticism by Walid...
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Bashar Assad declared a general amnesty Monday for prisoners in the country, state media reported, less than a week after he was re-elected to another seven-year term amid a bloody civil war. It was not clear how many — if any — prisoners would be freed by...
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say rebel infighting in Syria has killed 45 opposition fighters over the past two days. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the fighting flared up in eastern Deir el-Zour province on Sunday and continued into Monday. The Observatory...
ALEPPO (The Daily Star)- At least 40 people, including women and children, were killed during operations allegedly carried out across Syria Sunday by forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar Assad, according to opposition activists. Air and land operations involving heavy...
