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Rebel Free Syrian Army seized Friday parts of border village with Lebanon after ambushing forces loyal to Basher al-Assad and its backed militia Hezbollah. FSA source told Zaman Alwasl that rebels have made advances in Jouciya, a neighboring village to Qusayr city,...
‘President and Women’ is a Syrian sitcom will be streaming soon on YouTube, it follows in a comedian approach the relationship between presidents of the dictatorship regimes and women, as their romantic relationships and scandals. The sitcom which is produced by Zaman...
For a modest fee Ibrahim leads Syrians across the Turkish border, one of many services his organisation, the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front, provides to those in need. On a recent day he led a line of taxis up a muddy road through olive groves toward Turkey's border with Syria,...
Syria's opposition gathered in Istanbul on Friday to vote on whether to attend peace talks next week with President Bashar al-Assad's government, under heavy pressure from Western backers to endorse negotiations. With just five days to go, the opposition National Coalition remains...
The Syrian government, preparing for peace talks with rebels next week, handed the Russian co-sponsors of the conference a proposal on Friday for a local ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners. There was no immediate response from President Bashar al-Assad's opponents, whose very...
Islamist rebels have seized Base 46, last headquarters for the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) in western countryside of Aleppo, Islamic Front sources told Zaman Alwasl. The former regular army base was under rebels’ control before expelling them by ISIL...
A string of car bombs have hit the Islamist rebels' barracks and checkpoints, carried by the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) since the infighting has erupted two weeks ago. Suicide attacks and blasts seemed to be one of most dangerous war strategies by Al Qaeda...
Islamist rebels ambushed Assad’s army troops in Sheikh Said district of Aleppo on Thursday, leaving 20 soldiers dead, Islamic Front source told Zaman Alwasl. IF rebels also made a progress in the industrial zone of Sheikh Najjar near Aleppo city against the Islamic...
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has lost its HQ in Jarabulus city, north Aleppo, after fierce fighting with Islamist rebels for the last few days, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. ISIL’s commander in Jarabulus (Emir) Abu Huffs al-Masri has been killed,...
Syrian regime ambassador to Jordan, Bahjat Suleiman, exceeded again the diplomatic norms and practices after issuing an aggressive statement against a Jordanian parliament member. The statement described MB, Abdulla Ubeidat, as ‘a pawn in the Wahabist-Zionist axis with more...
Turkey’s embattled government has been accused of suspected weapons shipments to Syria—but tighter border controls could end up harming moderate rebels and helping jihadists. Al-Qaeda could emerge as the unlikely winner as supplies for more moderate rebels crossing the long...
As Western countries display increasing alarm at the strength of multinational Islamist extremists among rebels in Syria opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian official was quoted on Wednesday as saying Western intelligence agencies had sent representatives to Damascus...
An expert in Turkish affairs said to Zaman Alwasl that Gul’s speech had driven out of context by media outlets, especially by Assad's loyal media. Analyst Abdul Qader Abdully said that President Gül did not mention any changes in Turkish policy regarding the Syrian people in...
Syrian rebels have made a progress in the industrial zone of Sheikh Najjar near Aleppo city against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Zaman Alwasl reporter said. Since a fortnight, the Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the nascent Mujahedeen Army, the...
Donors meeting in Kuwait have pledged nearly $2.4bn in humanitarian aid for victims of the Syrian war, which the UN chief says has left half the population in need of urgent help. Millions of Syrians have been driven from their homes as a result of the crisis, now in its...
As Western countries display increasing alarm at the strength of multinational Islamist extremists among rebels in Syria opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian official was quoted on Wednesday as saying Western intelligence agencies had sent representatives to Damascus...
‘Pr esident and Women’ is a Syrian sitcom will be streaming on YouTube soon; it follows in a comedian approach the relationship between presidents of the dictatorship regimes and women, as their romantic relationships and scandals. The main character will be Bashar...
The State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader has been killed in Saraqib City in Syria's Idleb province, according to Activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Activists reported that he was killed during an ambush by fighters from the Islamic front who...
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) denied killing its military leader, the powerful foreign Jihadist Abu Omar Al Chechani north Syria, according to sources. Al Chechani, former commander in Al Nusra Front, is leading ISIL's infighting with Syrian rebels in...
Over one million Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon, but not all are eligible for aid. Refugees who are not registered with the United Nations have been forced to take desperate measures to survive. Fourteen-year-old Hanifa has agreed to marry a 44-year-old Lebanese landlord. Her...
