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Insurgents have renewed their assault on Assad forces inside Aleppo Central Prison, including an attack with a vehicle-borne suicide bomb. Opposition fighters briefly moved into part of the complex two weeks ago, freeing hundreds of detainees. Syrian forces, supported by airstrikes...
Syria has submitted a new 100-day plan for the removal of its chemical weapons after failing to meet a February 5 deadline, but the international mission overseeing the operation believes it can be done in a shorter time frame, diplomats said on Friday. The Organization...
Bashar al-Assad forces backed by Iran proxy Hezbollah militia kept up their shelling of the town of Yabroud and the surrounding Qalamoun region over the last two weeks. Regime's fighter jets hit the main market of Yabroud Friday, leaving mass destruction, activists said...
The Syria regime of embattled President Bashar al-Assad is ready to lend neighboring Lebanon a hand in combatting terrorism, the Syrian state-run agency reported late Thursday. The Syrian Interior Ministry stressed its readiness to help Lebanon “in the fields of counter terrorism, pursuing...
Syrian activists say hundreds of people have been killed in airstrikes targeting rebel-held areas over the past few days. The Syrian government forces continues to use barrel bombs - explosives packed inside drums and thrown from helicopters - which have been condemned as...
A surface-to-surface rocket by Bashar al-Assad‘s forces hit Al-Takaya Street in the city of Deir al-Zor on Friday, leaving one man killed and many others injured, Syrian Observatory for human Rights said. The observatory reported that...
Daoud brigade with other eight rebel groups have agreed to form al-Sham Army (The Levant Army) in Idlib province and north Syria, sources told Zaman Alwasl. Army of the Levant does not affiliated any faction or front within the country or outside. The aim of such a move is...
As Syria's war nears the start of its fourth year, Iran has stepped up support on the ground for President Bashar al-Assad, providing elite teams to gather intelligence and train troops, sources with knowledge of military movements say. This further backing from Tehran,...
The political command of Syrian National Coalition Thursday issued a warnin g to all 44-quitted members over Geneva II participation on January 21, to return or to send their resignations in a maximum period of 48 hours, according to Zaman Alwasl....
Prominent Media activist Trad al-Zuhouri has been killed due to shrapnel in head during his covering Qalamoun battles on Thursday, activists said. Al-Zuhouri's colleagues and many rebel commanders have commended his good manners and his brave heart for covering...
Senior opposition figure said in statement submitted to the Coalition leadership that Syrian National Council (SNC) is still a key component in the Coalition despite the quitting claims on January 21. Marwan Hijo al-Rifai, head of the Membership Committee and a member...
At least 50 people have been killed and dozens injured in a car bomb attack at a Syrian refugee camp near the Turkish border, according to opposition websites. The Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria are...
Tears welled in the eyes of Alia Abdelqader, 65, as she told of her husband's reluctant return to Syria that morning – just a few days after the couple had escaped to Lebanon. Their daughter, a gynecologist, has been trapped in the embattled city of Yabrud with her two children. She...
Seeing Syrian children selling products in Beirut’s streets has become familiar. Nirmin, a 6-year-old girl from Aleppo wonders in Beirut street selling flowers, with her under 13 years old three brothers, and her 5 years old cousin who sells tissues....
Islamist rebels in eastern Syria have ordered women to put on the Islamic veil, warning that anyone not doing so would be held to account, in a concerted new attempt by hardliners to impose their strict views on society. In a statement, an organization calling...
Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have ‘kicked to death’ a 105-year-old refugee woman in Damascus last January, her son told Zaman Alwasl. Om Faris al-Shibli, who fled with her family the embattled city of Aleppo to settle down in the Old City of Damascus, was a...
The U.N. Security Council will likely vote on a draft resolution to boost humanitarian aid access in war-torn Syria on Friday, diplomats said, but it was unclear if Russia and China would support or veto the Western- and Arab-backed text....
Bashar al-Assad forces backed by Iran proxy Hezbollah militia kept up their shelling of the town of Yabroud and the surrounding Qalamoun region over the last ten days. Zaman Alwasl reporter said 18 regular army soldiers have been killed due to fierce clashes with...
General Salim Idriss has rejected his dismissal as military chief of the rebel Free Syrian Army, saying the whole chain of command needed a "total restructuring" - highlighting deep divisions in the opposition. Speaking in a video statement on Wednesday, flanked by several...
Insurgents reclaimed control of the Sheikh Najjar industrial area east of Aleppo on Tuesday. The Syrian military had said that it occupied Sheikh Najjar over the weekend, but opposition statements and pictures claimed fighters from the Islamic Front and Jabhat al-Nusra had pushed out...
