Israel  warned Lebanon on Friday to prevent threatened Hezbollah retaliation for an alleged Israeli air strike on a site used by the guerrillas on the Syrian border. Israel  has neither confirmed nor denied carrying out Monday's strike, in keeping with its...

  Islamist militants trying to enforce their religious strict code in rebel-held areas of  Syria  have cut off the hand of an alleged thief in Aleppo province, jihadi social media said on Friday. Photos of the public event were posted on Twitter by several jihadi...

Fighters from an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of  Iraq  and the Levant (ISIL), withdrew from a rebel-held Syrian town near the border with  Turkey  on Friday, a monitoring group said. Months of rebel infighting in and around Azaz, 5 km (3...

Syrian regime has recruited the youth members of the governing Baath Party in a new armed militia called 'Al Baath Brigades', mainly composed of university students and operate under pro-Assad Student Union, sources said. The main mission of the newly formed brigades is...

The Syrian air force has continued the barrel bombing of Yabroud, 75 kilometers (48 miles) northwest of Damascus, amid a three-week regime offensive putting pressure on the city. The Local Coordination Committees said Tuesday that “ violent clashes and battles ” are occurring on the...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition  has blamed dozens of bodies  near Otaiba on the Syrian military and Hezbollah, condemning “the cowardly act of killing civilians who tried to escape the siege imposed by the Assad regime”. The Coalition statement called on the...

Talks between NATO and  Russia  on a possible joint mission to protect a U.S. ship that will destroy Syria's deadliest chemical weapons are moving ahead despite tensions over Ukraine , a top U.S. commander said on Thursday. U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove,...

Turkey has reopened the Bab al-Hawa border crossing after clashes inside a refugee camp earlier this month, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. The insurgent bloc Islamic Front had tried to move refugees to nearby camps because of Turkish objections to gunmen at the Bab al-Hawa...

A chemicals weapons attack in Syria last summer that the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people was the world's worst human rights violation of 2013, the Obama administration concluded Thursday. The report by the State Department also foreshadowed the unrest that has gripped the...

  Syrian state television said a mortar shell landed near a hospital in a government-controlled neighborhood of the central city of Homs, killing at least five people.               State TV said the mortar...

A car bomb has killed 20 people and wounded dozens in Sinjar, in eastern Idlib Province. Most of the martyrs were women who were shopping: the car was parked in a market which has a cloth bazaar every Thursday, visited by browsers from more than 30 kilometers away. EA

An al Qaeda splinter group has demanded that Christians in a Syrian city it controls pay a levy in gold and curb displays of their faith in return for protection, according to a statement posted online on Wednesday. The Islamic State in  Iraq  and the Levant (ISIL),...

Syrian Relief Office in Jordan has been closed over lack of responsibility by National Coalition Aid Unit,  former director said to Zaman Alwasl. Rima Flaihan, a prominent Syrian opposition figure, and a member of the SNC, said that a volunteer team formed in 2012 in Jordan,...

The new leader of Sayfullakh Shishani’s jamaat, a Chechen native named as Mohammed Khorasani, has made a video address in which he calls on Chechens in Europe and Chechnya to come to Syria and fight. Sayfullakh’s jamaat fights under the auspices of Jabhat al-Nusra but is a distinct...

    A severe siege imposed on Qudssaya city, near Damascus four days ago by Assad's forces in response to Army officer killing by rebels, who targeted his checkpoint, according to sources. A humanitarian crisis is a waiting more than 400 thousand people in this...

Syria  has agreed a new timetable to remove its chemical weapons by late April after failing to meet a deadline to ship out the arsenal earlier this month, diplomats said on Wednesday. Under a U.S.-Russian deal reached after a chemical weapons attack killed hundreds of people...

  Germany  faces an increased threat of attack due to around a dozen German militants who have returned from the conflict in  Syria  with specialist knowledge of weapons and bomb-making, German intelligence officers said. Hans-Georg Maassen, head of...

Scores of Islamist fighters were killed in an army ambush in the Eastern Ghouta area of the capital Damascus, Syria's national news agency SANA said on Wednesday. Captain Islam Alloush, Military spokesman of the Islamic Front claimed that most of 45 victims were civilians trying to...

Pictures emerge of thousands of residents of the Damascus district of Yarmouk, who have remained trapped for nearly a year, queuing for food and aid A picture showing thousands of residents queuing for food has revealed shocking levels of deprivation inside a beseiged camp in Syria....

Famed British officer Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, walked into a bar in Aleppo’s Baron hotel in 1914. 100 years later, his bill is still unpaid. Lawrence partook of some appetizers and enjoyed a few drinks, before he left with the payment outstanding. The...