Protests against the Syrian government has been on-going in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor since March 2011, as part of the wider Syrian revolution, but large-scale clashes and attack and retreat battles have been taking place between rebels and regime forces on the outskirts of the Deir...

Well-known personalities from the besieged neighborhoods of Homs met with Syria’s regime Reconciliation minister in al-Safir hotel yesterday in step to break 22-month of siege and starvation. The meeting with Minister Ali Haidar and Homs governor Talal al-Barazi comes in...

Opposition activists reported power outages in most neighborhoods in the Syrian capital of Damascus beginning Monday night and continuing into Tuesday. “Our electricity was cut from 11 last night until 10 this morning, and when the electricity is on it’s unreliable,” Hamza, a...

A convoy representing donations from the United Nations, World Food Program and Syrian Arab Red Crescent delivered 16 truckloads of food and medical aid to the town of Douma in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta Saturday. It was only the second time in almost two years that...

In the 661 st day of Syrian government encirclement of the 13 besieged neighborhoods of Old Homs, a photograph shows three rebel combatants eating mulberry leaves, as food provisions in the town remain scarce, nearly two months after the United Nations World Food Program was last able...

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A group of Syrian artists in Damascus has created the world’s biggest mural made of recycled materials, a rare work aimed at brightening public space in a city sapped by war and sanctions. The brightly colored, 720-sq meter work was constructed from aluminum cans, broken mirrors,...

Turkey fired artillery into Syria to retaliate after a cross-border rocket from the war-torn country had slammed into a mosque, Turkish media said Monday amid heightened tensions. The rocket from Syria wounded an elderly Syrian refugee woman in Hatay province on...

United Nations Humanitarian coordinator for Syria Yacoub al-Hillo spoke Saturday to opposition activists in Douma, roughly 10 km northeast of Damascus, after entering the town along with a United Nations, World Food Program (WFP) and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) caravan carrying 16...

The Islamic Front claimed Monday to have launched six Grad missiles at the headquarters of the National Defense Forces (NDF), the semi-official pro-government militias, in the Latakia province town of Qardaha, the birthplace of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “As a part of the...

In an attempt to understand strategies the Syrian regime uses to keep the dollar exchange rate at SP 150, Zaman alwasl has met Samir Seifan, an economist and researcher, to explain some economic issues affecting Syrian economy and budget. Seifan said that strategy Syrian...

The rebel bloc Islamic Front  has posted a statement  on the “al-Anfal” battles  in Latakia Province, summarizing opposition advances. The Front claims the capture of ammunition and rockets and says insurgents destroyed nine tanks and more than 100 cars and trucks....

Bashar al-Assad's troops recaptured on Monday a key position in coastal Latakia province, a regime bastion, state television said, as rebels press a campaign in the region. "Syrian army units have full control of Observatory 45 in the north of Latakia province and are continuing to...

Two days after Israeli army shot dead two suspected gunmen while trying to enter the country from Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to repel all cross-border attacks. "The IDF thwarted an attempt to infiltrate the border," Xinhua quoted Netanyahu as saying....

Syria's information minister has lashed out at Turkey, accusing Ankara of sending foreign fighters across the border to fight Syrian government troops in President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland in Latakia province. Omran al-Zoubi told the state TV on Sunday that neighbouring...

  Syria’s key opposition group the National Coalition will issue and renew passports for Syrians abroad in the forthcoming months, especially for who oppose Bashar al-Assad' regime and can't renew their passports over security precautions, source in the Syrian community in...

Dozens of troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were killed in two attacks carried out by rebels in Aleppo, opposition sources reported on Sunday. Ziad Hajj Obeid, a commander for the rebel Free Syrian Army, said their forces carried two “special operations’ in the city, and...

Two Spanish journalists held hostage in Syria by an al Qaeda-linked militant group for 194 days have been freed and handed over to the Turkish military in good health, one of the men told his employer El Mundo newspaper. El Mundo Middle East correspondent Javier Espinosa called the...

  Amid Syria’s ongoing war woes, the upcoming launch of a new Syrian airline has attracted a wave of criticism over the regime’s apparent ability to weather the three-year conflict. But this hasn’t been the only type of criticism. The private carrier’s launch announcement has also...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has called for domestic support for his fighters after a year of growing sectarian violence in Lebanon following the Shia armed group's intervention in the Syrian war. "Some in Lebanon say the resistance (Hezbollah) has nothing to do with Syria,"...