Jihadist social media pages reported kidnapping of top Al Qaeda commander's wife in Syria. Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouheisni, the powerful commander in the State of Iraq and The Levant assured in his Facebook page that Hajji Baker’s wife had been...
Two car bombs exploded Monday afternoon on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey. The border crossing is under control of the Islamic Front, activists accused the state of Iraq and The Levant of the car bombs as a response to the...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told AFP in an exclusive interview Sunday there is a "significant" chance he will seek a new term this year, and dismissed the prospect of an opposition premier. Speaking at the presidential palace in Damascus, days before the beginning of the Geneva...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Iran to participate in upcoming peace talks on Syria, a move that immediately angered the opposition. The invitation to this week's opening-day session of the so-called Geneva 2 came as he held a surprise news conference...
Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad are preparing to attack rebel towns in the countryside of Homs city, activists say. 7000 regular soldiers and 2000 militants (National Defence militia) backed with 20 tanks will break into rebel-held towns of al-Zara and al-Huson towns in...
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The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has reached out to other rebel groups in Syria to head off infighting, in an audio message posted online Sunday. "Today, the (Islamic) state is reaching out to you to stop fighting us, to focus on fighting the...
Iran has called on participants at next week's international peace conference on Syria to adopt a "realistic view" and decision that will not embolden jihadist fighters, media reports said Sunday. More than 35 countries will gather in the Swiss cities of Montreux and Geneva from...
Turkish security forces on Sunday stopped and searched seven trucks near the Syrian border suspected to be loaded with weapons -- but let them go when they discovered Turkish intelligence personnel on board, according to media and officials. Local media reported that a big...
A powerful alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels rejected upcoming peace talks on Sunday, meaning that even if the talks reach an unlikely breakthrough in the three year old civil war, it will be harder to implement it on the ground. Syria's main political opposition group in exile, the...
Syrian state media dismissed as "not accurate" a report by news agency Interfax that President Bashar al-Assad told visiting Russian parliamentarians he has no intention of giving up power and the issue is not up for discussion. Assad was quoted as telling the visitors days ahead of...
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Rebel Free Syrian Army shelled sites of the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) in western countryside of Aleppo by mortar bombs, sources told Zaman Alwasl. FSA's Division 9 is looking to expel al-Qaeda group from Kafr Joom village in step to expel al-Qaeda,...
A National Council member called on his bloc to quit the National Coalition after the main political opposition group in exile agreed on Saturday to attend internationally sponsored peace talks. Jamal al-Wadi in a message submitted to SNC leaders and obtained by Zaman...
Major Islamist groups are endorsing political solution for the Syrian crisis, Zaman Alwasl sources say. The powerful Islamic Front, Syria revolutionaries and Jund al Islam have agreed on a political solution, “that did not mean their approval to go to the planned Geneva...
Syria's main political opposition group in exile agreed on Saturday to attend internationally sponsored peace talks, and said for the first time three rebel fighting forces also wanted to take part. Zaman Alwasl source said that fierce debates within the coalition about who will lead...
US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned the Syrian regime it would fail to divert next week's peace talks away from the aim of installing a new government. Syria's foreign minister said on Friday he has handed Russia plans for a ceasefire in Aleppo, and was ready to exchange lists...
In recent weeks Russia has stepped up supplies of military gear to Syria, including armored vehicles, drones and guided bombs, boosting President Bashar al-Assad just as rebel infighting has weakened the insurgency against him, sources with knowledge of the deliveries say....
Two British men were charged on Friday with travelling to Syria for the purposes of terrorism, police said, while another man was arrested on suspicion of attending a terror camp in the war-ravaged country. Yusuf Sawar and Mohammed Ahmed, both 21 and from Birmingham...
Syrian rebels counteracted Al Qaeda reinforcement's convoy to the city of Manbij north Aleppo, source said. The State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) waged a severe campaign to recapture its bases and strongholds in Aleppo province in similar scenario to Raqqa east Syria. But...
