State security claimed that 40 Syrian detainees had been died due to heart attacks, a well-informed source from the embattled neighborhood of Mezzeh in Damascus city, told Zaman Alwasl. The Assad regime refused to deliver the detainees bodies to their relatives in...

French president Francois Hollande told key Syrian opposition “not to go to Geneva if there is no ending for Bashar al-Assad’s rule,” Syrian Deputy Chairman of the National Coalition said in a report was sent to some opposition figures and obtained by Zaman Alwasl....

Kuwait's emir pledged on Wednesday $500 million for Syrians stricken by almost three years of civil war. Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah made the pledge at an international donor conference in Kuwait city attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Delegates...

Syrian rebels have made gains in Jarabulus city, north Aleppo, against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Jarabulus, the city which lies on the western bank of the Euphrates river, has been freed from the ISIL control except...

A memorial service was held in a Sydney mosque on Monday for Muslim woman Amira Karroum, and her husband Yusuf Ali who were killed in Syria last week. Amira Karroum, 22, had left her Sydney home in December, telling her family she was headed to Denmark to holiday with...

  6 Rebel groups in Eastern Ghouta of Damascus have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-linked group, Al Nusra Front, Jihadist websites reported. Analysts considered the merger as a strong sign that NF is occupying more influence against the radical group, the State of Iraq...

Powerful rebel group the Islamic Front denied news of controlling  Bab al-Hawa crossing border by  the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL),  according to Zaman Alwasl source. Al Mayadeen, Loyal satellite channel to Bashar al-Assad, aired news purporting that...

A document issued on November 26, 2013 by Syria’s key opposition the National Coalition revealed that the former U.S. Ambassador to Damascus Mr. Robert Ford had told the NC officials that Geneva II will be without pre-conditions or guarantees. The American diplomat said that some of...

The Syrian government has retaken territory around the northern city of Aleppo, the military said on Tuesday, after two weeks of rebel infighting that has weakened the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. The internecine conflict among some within the chaotic plethora of...

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Monday appealed for donations to a nationwide fund-raising campaign to support the Syrian people facing a serious humanitarian crisis due the country’s civil war. The emir issued “a distress call to citizens, men and women, old...

Britain on Monday accused Syria's government of committing "yet another war crime" by spraying civilian areas with barrel bombs - oil drums or cylinders which are packed with explosives and metal fragments and dropped from aircraft. Human rights groups say the improvised devices have...

Dozens of people in the southern suburbs of Damascus have died of starvation after spending months living on scraps of food, trapped in one of the worst sieges of the civil war, activists claim. For more than a year, nothing has been allowed in or out of a number of...

At first glance, it seems to be no more than a nondescript suburban street of neat 1930s semis, too close to the noisy A40 dual carriageway to be fashionable.  But this road in the West London suburb of Acton has become the capital’s unlikely front line in Syria’s...

    On Thursday, news circulated that scores of insurgents had been killed in a failed operation in Homs city in central Syria On Friday morning, the death toll was put at 65, but it was still unclear — how and why had these men died? Rose al-Homsi offers...

  Lugging three plastic sacks full of clothes, Abu Mohammed and his three daughters pulled back the wrought iron border crossing gate, stepped through it into Turkey and smiled. As one daughter wept tears of relief, her father recounted their 12-hour journey from...

  The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has taken most of the town of al-Bab in Syria's Aleppo province after fighting with rebels, an NGO said Monday. The advance by the group in the country's turbulent north comes after 10 days of fighting pitting...

Top diplomats have discussed the possibilities of a Syrian ceasefire, with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying that President Bashar-Al Assad is willing to open aid access to devastated areas. Monday's meeting in Paris, attended by Lavrov and his US counterpart, Secretary...

The "Friends of Syria", an alliance of mainly Western and Gulf Arab countries who oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, urged opposition groups on Sunday to attend this month's peace talks, saying there was no alternative for a political solution. "There is no other political...

Syria has become a major amphetamines exporter and consumer as the trauma of the country's brutal civil war fuels demand and the breakdown in order creates opportunity for producers. Drugs experts, traders and local activists say Syrian production of the most popular of the...

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel to Tehran ally Damascus in the next few days, media reported Sunday, amid preparations for a Syria peace conference. Zarif was Sunday in Lebanon, which neighbours war-torn Syria, and said that his country is not...