The head of a Syrian paramilitary force and cousin of President Bashar Assad died Sunday in clashes with rebels near the coastal city of Latakia, sources inside Syria said. Syrian state media confirmed reports that Hillal Assad, head of the National Defense Forces,...

Rifts over foreign policy will likely make it harder for Arab leaders meeting at a summit this week to forge a common stand on regional challenges, including what many of them see as a threat from Iranian-U.S. rapprochement. And while the Arab League meeting may agree more humanitarian...

   Turkish fighter jets shot down a Syrian warplane Sunday after it violated the country's airspace, Turkey's prime minister said, in a move likely to ramp up tensions between two countries already deeply at odds over Syria's civil war. A spokesman for Syria's military...

“Countering Violent Extremism …. Extremists’ map in Syria “. A study made by Ark organization and Zaman Alwasl obtained a copy of these documents. The study which consists of 32 pages, concentrates on 3 organizations, which are: al-Nsura Front, The Islamic State of Iraq...

Renting allowance raised to unprecedented level in Lebanon, proportioned with numbers of Syrian refugees in the country. According to latest official figures by the UNHCR, it is estimated that number of Syrians in Lebanon has hit a million, in other word, there is a Syrian...

Bashar al-Assad’s top commander in Aleppo has been killed on Saturday with other 25 soldiers, activists reported.  Brig. Gen Sameea Abbas was the commander of the Republican Guards, mostly formed of Alawites, in Aleppo. Activists say that rebels keep...

Syrian troops launched a counteroffensive Saturday in an attempt to regain a border crossing point with Turkey a day after it fell in the hands of rebels led by members of an al-Qaida-linked group, activists and state media said. The rebel capture of the Kassab crossing point in the...

Heavy fighting convenes between the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham near Kobane (Ayn-Al-Arab) in northeast Syria. ISIS has been attacking the area from three directions: Jarablus to the west, Sarrin to the south, and Tal Abyad to the east. The latest report of fighting comes from...

The Assad regime  has accused Turkey of direct involvement  in “terrorism”, following the launch of an insurgent offensive in Latakia Province in western Syria. The Islamic Front, the largest insurgent bloc, announced the start of the offensive on Friday. Opposition...

  A veteran dissident and head of democratic bloc in Syria’s opposition National Coalition denied claims saying that Ahmed Jarab will extend his presidential term to be one year.  Michel Kilo quoted his bloc member and NC leader, as saying, “I will never change...

From the Lebanese border town of Arsal, you can see the smoke as  Syria n government warplanes bomb rebel positions across the frontier. But its problems are even closer. Arsal is Sunni Muslim and the neighbouring town of al-Labwa is Shi'ite. Their fate shows just how dangerous...

 The first U.N. convoy carrying aid from  Turkey  into Syria  was halted on Friday, less than 24 hours after the long-awaited humanitarian mission began, with one aid official blaming "administrative hurdles" thrown up by the Syrian government. The convoy only...

The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church Ignatius Zakka Iwas, the leader of one of world's oldest Christian sects, has died. He was 80. Syrian state news agency SANA said Iwas was admitted into a German hospital for treatment Feb. 20. He died on Friday in Germany after...

Mohammad, a 15-year-old Syrian kid who fled to Amman, Jordan, with family a year ago and worked there, said last Friday he wants to go to school just as local children do. Mohammad has been working in a butcher's shop for five months. His job is cutting the vegetables, grinding the...

Syrian refugee children living in Jordan this week performed a silent play entitled “We Emerged to Light,” which tells the tale of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Starring 21 children, the play was directed by Syrian actor Jalal al-Taweel. The production uses...

Most Syrians believe that disregarding mother’s day this year is a humanitarian obligation, for no need to light a candle on mothers’ wounds who became either mothers of martyrs or detainees, or in the best cases mothers of homeless and threatened by the Syrian regime. A...

The German government has asked federal prosecutors to examine whether German firms broke the law by exporting equipment to  Syria  during the 1980s and early 1990s that may have helped the country to develop chemical weapons. An  economy  ministry spokesman...

Syria, Russia and Afghanistan have the largest numbers of people fleeing their homelands to seek asylum, and most are turning to Europe, the United Nations refugee agency said in a report Friday. Syria's 3-year-old civil war generated 56,351 asylum seekers in 2013, more than double the...

The ousted chairman of rebels Joint Chief of Staff, General Salim Idriss revealed to Zaman Alwasl that he wrote his resignation to the fronts’ leaders who went to negotiate with the coalition president Mr. Ahmed al-Jarba, to end the crisis that followed Idris’s dismissal....

  A U.N. convoy of about 80 trucks is ready to cross the Turkish border into Syria for the first time, aid officials said Wednesday, in a step they hope will pave the way for humanitarian access to the country’s most desperate areas . The convoy became possible...