By Aabed Mulhem; Translation by Yusra Ahmed ALEPPO (Zaman Alwasl) - Water supply has been resumed to Aleppo in both the rebels and regime’s sides after cut off for 10 days. Sources in the Sharia Authority reported to Zaman Alwasl that...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian official on Wednesday welcomed the resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria, calling for the appointment of a "more objective" mediator. Fayez Sayegh, a member of parliament and a senior member of...
(Al Jazeera) - Syrian government and opposition forces have systematically attacked healthcare professionals and facilities in the country over the past three years, a report by the US-based group, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), has alleged. The report released by the...
In a first phase and as a gesture of goodwill over exchange agreement between rebels and Syrian regime, a family of eight people has been released on Tuesday from the city of Adra, east north Damascus, a close newspaper to Bashar Assad’s regime said....
AMMAN ( The National ) The deadline to resolve a dispute that brought the Free Syrian Army and Jabhat Al Nusra to the brink of war in southern Syria expired on Monday without resolution. Conditions in southern Syria were tense on Monday night but it appeared as though moderate...
Local activists assured to Zaman Alwasl mass acts of robbery and looting for the former rebel-held areas in Homs by Bashar al-Assad forces and its backed militias with participation of many Alawite civilians including women. Many photos have been circulated on social media...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met with Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba on Tuesday and praised the coalition's role in trying to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, the White House said in a statement. The meeting came near the end of Jarba's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — France's foreign minister on Tuesday accused the Syrian government of attacking its people with chemical weapons at least 14 times since October, including as recently as a few weeks ago. Speaking to reporters in Washington, Laurent Fabius cited "credible...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Lakhdar Brahimi is resigning as the international point man on Syria, the U.N. chief announced Tuesday, marking a second failure by the United Nations and Arab League to end the country's worsening civil war and highlighting the deep divisions among the parties...
LOS ANGELES—Long before he got to Hollywood in 2012, Jihad Abdo was already a bankable star. Over a 30-year career, he had been featured in hundreds of TV episodes, 43 movies and 21 plays set in modern and ancient times, in roles as varied as villain, military officer and prince....
ABOARD CARGO SHIP ARK FUTURA (AP) — Denmark's foreign minister on Tuesday urged Syria to give up the last of its chemical weapons agents within days to meet a June 30 deadline for completely ridding the war-torn country of its lethal stockpile. Martin Lidegaard said there are...
Evidence "strongly suggests" Syria's government has used chlorine gas on three towns in mid-April in violation of the chemical weapons treaty Damascus joined last year, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. "Evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government helicopters...
By Dasha Afanasieva GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Seven weeks after U.N. aid trucks crossed from Turkey into Syria for the first time, aid workers and officials in this southern Turkish humanitarian hub still have no idea exactly where the supplies ended up. The convoy...
Government and rebels accuse each other of being responsible for cutting water supply to Syrian city, observatory says. Residents of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, have been without water for a week because fighters have cut supplies into rebel and...
Reporting by Mohamed Al-Faris GAZIANTEP (Zaman Alwasl)- Head of Syria’s opposition interim government said Monday the International Community did not want to resolve the Syrian crisis; instead it adopted crisis management policy, according to Zaman Alwasl...
The UN Security Council should impose a ceasefire to end the bloodshed in Syria, Qatar's foreign minister said Monday, accusing the Damascus regime of using poison gas against rebel-held areas. "It is imperative that the UN Security Council assume its responsibilities and...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France circulated a draft resolution to U.N. Security Council members on Monday that seeks to refer the three-year-old civil war in Syria to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The...
AFP- Syria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said. The decision by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also...
BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Monday between rival jihadi groups in an oil-rich eastern Syrian province bordering Iraq, forcing many residents to flee, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting concentrated on the eastern...
The foreign ministry said Monday that France and Germany intend to prevent Syrians living in their countries from voting in Syria's presidential election, expected to return President Bashar al-Assad to power. Germany and France are "preventing Syrians living in their territory...
