Jihadist social media pages and rebels confirmed killing of Hajji Baker, top commander of the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL). A photo of the slain Hajji Baker posted online by rebel group, Mujahedeen of Northern Aleppo countryside, purporting that his real name...

 Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up "the keys to Damascus." With little progress to show after...

The Syrian government has agreed that women and children in the besieged districts of the central city of Homs can leave "immediately", peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said. The government asked that the opposition provide names of other civilians who wish to leave the siege imposed by...

Face-to-face talks between Syria's warring parties stalled on Sunday over easing the humanitarian crisis, opposition delegates said, deepening doubts over tougher political negotiations which are due to follow. Government and opposition delegations discussed aid and prisoner releases...

Top Syrian government officials have told Al Jazeera that an aid convoy is ready to enter the city of Homs after rival delegations meeting in Geneva agreed on the need for humanitarian access to conflict areas. Bouthaina Shabaan, President Bashar al-Assad's media and political adviser,...

Syria's civil war foes held their first face-to-face meetings on Saturday, launching talks aimed at ending nearly three years of conflict which has killed 130,000 people and destabilized the wider Middle East. Government and opposition delegates faced each other across a...

   Munzer Akbik, National Coalition President’s spokesman, expected  regime’s delegation  withdrawal “to evade the commitment to the terms of Geneva I which form the basis for Geneva II. Geneva I Communique calls for the formation of a...

 At least 29 people were killed in clashes in Egypt Saturday during rival rallies on the anniversary of the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, underscoring the country's violent polarisation.   Three years after Egyptians rose up to demand the overthrow of...

Rebel Free Syrian Army seized Saturday two checkpoints near border village with Lebanon after ambushing forces loyal to Basher al-Assad and its backed militia Hezbollah, leaving 15 soldiers dead, Zaman Alwasl source said. The one-week skirmishes have taken place near Al...

   “Because his wife wasn't wearing a veil when they were walking in the city of Raqqa, he was arrested by the State of Iraq and The Levant,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Another man has been arrested due to sitting in front of his house with...

Sources close to Assad’s official delegation in Geneva talks  denied what has been circulated about agreements being made between the two delegations, affirming that the first dialogue session will    focus on humanitarian issues only, Sate News agency SANA...

Syria's air force struck rebel-held areas near Damascus and Aleppo Saturday, a monitoring group said, as regime and opposition representatives met briefly in the same room in Geneva for peace talks. Government warplanes fired rockets at Talfita north of the capital, and helicopters...

It has emerged that Azerbaijani nationals are among the foreigners fighting in the Syrian conflict. Video footage shows Azerbaijanis among the rebel forces, and a number have been reported killed. While most seem to come from Azerbaijan’s Sunni Muslim minority, and gravitate towards...

  Syria's warring sides met briefly together in the same room on Saturday for the first time since peace talks started in Geneva, the U.N. said. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi's spokeswoman confirmed Saturday morning that he and the two sides were meeting in the same...

A week ago before launching Geneva II talks in Montreux, Switzerland over Syrian conflict Zaman Alwasl has published what have been said behind closed doors between the International community officials and Syria’s key opposition.  A document issued on November 26, 2013 by the...

  A group linked to al Qaeda, emboldened by its recent victory over rival rebels in Syria, has imposed sweeping restrictions on personal freedoms in the northern province of Raqqa as it seeks to consolidate control over the region. The ISIL radicals have...

One of the Islamic Front powerful leaders described the Syrian opposition president in his negotiations with Assad’s regime in Geneva as a new Arthur Belfour, who promised the Jewish people of a national home in Palestine (The Balfour Declaration 1917), according to his official...

A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 63 people, including women and children, in the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus because of food and medical shortages, AFP reported. Yarmuk in southern Damascus has been under a choking army...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Friday denied his country had sent Hezbollah militants to fight in Syria, saying the Tehran-backed Shiite extremist group was making its own decisions. And he told a gathering at the World Economic Forum that he believed the Syrian conflict...

UN and Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said a Syrian government delegation and the Western-backed opposition will meet together on Saturday "in the same room" and that they have accepted the principles of a 2012 communique that called for a transitional government....