The war in Syria is driving one family from their home every minute, pushing the number of people internally displaced by conflict to record highs globally, a report said Wednesday. The study by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said that 33.3 million people...

Translation by Dani Murad AL HASAKAH (Zaman Alwasl) More than 400 tribal figures loyal to the Syrian regime have gathered on Wednesday  in Qamishli city northern of Hasakah, amid pro –regime demonstrations that are under surveillance of The Democratic...

BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels fired a rocket that struck a government-held neighborhood Friday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, killing 13 people, Syria's state news agency reported. The battle for Syria's largest city has taken on new urgency as President Bashar Assad's forces have...

(AFP) Iran is recruiting Afghan refugees to fight in Syria, the Wall Street Journal reported. In exchange, Iran is offering them stipends of $500 a month and residency permits, the paper said, quoting Afghans and Western officials. Shiite Muslim Iran is a key ally of...

Head of National Coalition’s Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) has filed a complaint against the unit executive director over accusations of abusing the Unit rules. Mrs. Suhair Atassi said in statement obtained by Zaman Alwasl that she can not...

(Zaman Alwasl) Syrian regime forces came under attack by Islamic rebels Thursday, when an explosive device was detonated near a military vehicle in al-Adawi neighborhood of Damascus killing at least 4 soldiers. The Islamic Union of Ajnad as-Sham,...

( The Daily Star ) Pro- and anti-Assad Aleppo residents, as well as rights groups, have slammed what they call the collective punishment of civilians by suspending services and utilities, as a water crisis there entered its 12th day. While water began return to some areas in...

Five aid workers who were kidnapped in Syria in January have been freed, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said Thursday. In a statement, MSF said three of the staff members were released on April 4 and the remaining two on Wednesday. "Out of respect for the privacy of the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused Western and Gulf Arab countries that oppose Syria's president of being "destructive" on Thursday after they agreed to increase support for Bashar al-Assad's opponents. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the "Friends of Syria"...

London, May 16 (IANS) Foreign ministers from countries of the "London 11" Core Group of the "Friends of Syria" have agreed to offer more support to the Syrian opposition National Coalition, the ministers said in a joint communique Thursday. "We have agreed unanimously to take...

  LONDON (AP) — Syria's planned presidential election next month is a "farce," and the U.S. and its partners are prepared to quickly redouble efforts to support opposition forces in the county, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. Kerry stopped short of promising U.S....

BEIRUT (AP) — A massive car bomb ripped through a crowded garage Thursday near a rebel-held border crossing between Syria and Turkey, killing at least 43 people in an area that has seen fierce fighting between rival rebel groups, an anti-government activist group said. The attack...

(Reuters) - Dry weather is likely to cut Syria's 2014 wheat crop by 18 percent on the year to about 1.97 million tonnes, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report on Thursday. The 2014 barley crop in Syria, where an uprising and civil war have been...

WASHINGTON (Zaman Alwasl) — The long-awaited meeting by western-backed opposition with U.S. President Barack Obama finally held on Tuesday. Mr. Obama, who met with Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba, has praised the coalition's role in trying...

The US government officially designated as "global terrorists" Wednesday two figures from rival jihadist groups in Syria, warning other rebel factions in the war-torn country to stay away from both men. The US Treasury added Saudi-born Abd Al-Rahman Muhammad Zafir Al-Dubaysi...

AFP- Islamist rebels detonated explosives planted in a tunnel under an army base in northwestern Idlib on Wednesday, killing or injuring dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based group said the explosives blew up under a checkpoint inside Wadi Deif...

DAMASCUS (Zaman Alwasl)- Translation by Yusra Ahmed A group of independent opposition figures and inside Syria opposition held a conference in Damascus, aiming to find a mutual vision for the political solution for war in Syria. Al-Mayadeen...

Nearly 850 prisoners have died in Syrian regime jails this year, many executed summarily or tortured to death, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. "From the beginning of the year until May 13, 847 prisoners, including 15 below the age of 18 and six women,...

At least 12 people have been killed and 48 wounded in air strikes on the northern Syrian city of Atareb near Aleppo, local sources told Zaman Alwasl on Wednesday. Regime’s warplanes have conducted a series of airstrikes that killed at least 12...

Syrian rebels who evacuated Homs after a two-year siege and daily bombing are rediscovering the simple joy of eating well and resting. But many feel far from home and dream of return. "In the last months of the siege, all we had left to eat were the leaves off the trees," says...