T he baby-faced boy waited patiently for his turn at the small ice cream shop, his Kalashnikov balanced precariously over his shoulder. The rifle was pointed down and his hand occasionally cupped the muzzle, far from the proper way to carry a gun. He stood just a few inches...

Syria's rebels shoot down two fighter jets in Qalamoun area, east Damascus on Thursday, source told Zaman Alwasl. The anti-aircraft missiles of  main Islamic Front group, Islam Army hit ‘Sukhoi’ jet near al-Nasseryia military...

A new Islamic alliance to be announced next month which will include most Islamist groups fighting in Syria under one banner called, ‘Mashrou’a Ummah’, the Arabic for ‘Nation Project’, Islamic Front spokesman told Zaman Alwasl.  ...

Israel on Thursday suspended U.S.-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas's unexpected unity pact with the rival Islamist Hamas group. The negotiations had appeared to be heading nowhere even before Wednesday's reconciliation...

Reuters-  The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic stockpile is considering launching a fact-finding mission on his own initiative to investigate reports of chlorine gas attacks there, sources said. Syria became a member of the...

Syria's air force killed 27 civilians Thursday in a raid on a market in an Aleppo provincial village, as a businessman became the second hopeful to register for the country's controversial presidential election. Meanwhile, a team overseeing Syria's chemical weapons handover said...

  Syria declared on Wednesday that it was looking ahead to the dismantling of the international mission overseeing the destruction of the conflict-torn country's chemical arsenal, though Western officials said they want the team to keep working....

At least 24 people killed and dozens wounded when Bashar al-Assad's missile hit the city of Atareb near Aleppo on Thursday morning, Local Coordination Committees reported. Normal 0 false false false...

Syrian activist Yasmin Bennishi has been released after 12 days of detention by rebel group at Bab al-Hawa border crossing, Zaman Alwasl source said. The Islamic movement of Ahrar al-Sham, which controls the strategic crossing with Turkey, arrested...

Syria's opposition National Coalition to appoint Mrs. Hanan al-Balkhi as its representative in Norway, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl.   Al-Balkhi is a prominent female activist and an active member in key coalition group, National...

A Syrian youngster saved an elderly man from drowning near Istanbul’s Galata Bridge on April 21, as a local crowd watched and applauded the dramatic scene. A man had jumped into the Golden Horn after climbing the bridge railing, after which Rabaa...

Syria's parliament speaker says a lawmaker has announced his candidacy for the June 3 presidential election — the first to field his bid for the top post in a vote called despite the country's relentless civil war. President Bashar Assad has suggested he would seek another term in...

A Lebanese convoy of soldiers, clerics and Red Cross officials delivered aid Tuesday to a remote village near the Syrian border that was bombed by Syrian government aircraft and blocked by Lebanese militants fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's forces in the civil war next door....

The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has reached "almost one million," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, while pledging to keep accepting those fleeing the war. "Are we supposed to ask our brothers not to come, and to die in Syria?" Erdogan said as he...

Chlorine gas attacks in Syria this month, if proven, expose a major loophole in an international deal to remove chemical weapons from the war-torn country and suggest chemical warfare could persist after the removal operation has finished. President Bashar al-Assad agreed...

Holding an election in Syria while civil war rages will only obstruct international efforts to resolve the conflict, the head of the Arab League said on Tuesday. President Bashar al-Assad's government announced on Monday that a presidential election would take place on June...

  The youngest known convicted prisoner Tal al-Mallouhi, 23-year-old, sent back to Adra central Prison after months of ‘detention’ by state intelligence and failed efforts to get her released since she was a part of a hostage exchange last October 2013,...

  A German former rapper who joined jihadists fighting in Syria has been killed in a suicide bombing carried out by rival fighters, jihadist sources and a monitor said Tuesday. Denis Mamadou Cuspert, who rapped under the name Deso Dogg...

  The Associated Press, Beirut| Weakened Syrian rebels are making their last desperate stand in Homs, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad launch their harshest assault yet to expel them from the central city, once known as the capital of the revolution. Some...

The opposition Interim Government decided in its weekly meeting to pay the salaries for Free Syrian Army fighters (FSA) in Aleppo and Idlib. The financial receivables reached $300,000, $200 thousand would be allocated to fighters in Aleppo, and the...