The U.N.'s human rights office has stopped updating the death toll from Syria's civil war, confirming Tuesday that it can no longer verify the sources of information that led to its last count of at least 100,000 in late July. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. Office...
A well-informed source assured Turkish mediation to heal the rift within Syrian key opposition, National Coalition, after news of defecting more than 40 members. Zaman Alwasl source said the Turkish officials had canceled a press conference for the resigned members...
Al Mujahideen Army and other rebel groups have not controlled the main headquarters of the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) in Kadi Askar in Aleppo, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. The reporter assured that fierce clashes took place today between Al...
The head of a rebel group with links to Al Qaeda called on Tuesday for a ceasefire between opposition factions who have clashed for five days in the bloodiest bout of infighting since the revolt against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. An audio recording from the leader...
Islamist rebels have defeated militant group affiliated to pro-Assad Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Qamishli countryside and have seized all towns except for two villages, activists reported. Islamic Front main unit, Ahrar Al Sham Movement, said it took control of the...
The first shipment of chemical weapons material has left Syria, according to the UN. The joint mission overseeing the disarmament, the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said on Tuesday that the materials had been moved from two sites to the port of...
At least 34 jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and another group were killed after clashes with other rebel movements in Syria's Idlib province, an NGO said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bodies of the 34 were...
Cuff tended to favor of al-Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa over the infighting with Islamist rebels, local activists told Zaman Alwasl. Main Islamic Front Unit, Ahrar al-Sham movement has retreated due to the big reinforcements to...
Syrian regime government announced it will be offering Russian as a second foreign language in schools starting with the fifth grade. The new decision was posted on Syria’s ministry of education website. Fifth graders will have the choice between Russian and French as part of...
In serious escalation, Syrian Islamic Front said it would blacklist Geneva II participants from both sides, Regime and opposition, (who will be WANTED to IF), according to Islam Army commander, Zahran Alloush, in a tweet posted on his official Twitter account Monday....
Syrian Rebel group, Abu Emara Battalions, has announced about swap deal with Assad's army in Aleppo, resulted in liberating its commander Yaser al-Abed (Abu Ja’far). No further information revealed if the exchange deal had been included other rebels or Abu Ja’far only, or...
More than 50 bodies were discovered in former base for radical State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) in Aleppo, it reportedly belongs to media activists affiliated to Al-Nusra Front, Shada Al Hurriya channel and other Islamist groups, who were kidnapped by ISIL recently, according to...
41 members of key opposition group National Coalition withdrew after disputes over participation in Geneva II, NC member told Zaman Alwasl. Dr. Khaled Khoja, NC representative in Turkey, said to Zaman Alwasl that the resignation was a protest against the maladministration...
40 members of key opposition group National Coalition withdrew from after disputes over participation in Geneva II participation, according to Zaman Alwasl source. Meanwhile, UN chief BanKi-moon sends invites to the peace conference, ‘’Iran is not included’’,...
Infighting between Syrian rebels threatened a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, a source said, forcing doctors to hide patients as clashes flared between Islamists and members of the Free Syrian Army. "Doctors are working neutrally, treating both...
U.S officials in Brussels urged Iran on Monday to help put an end to the Syrian regime’s bombardment of Aleppo and improve humanitarian access to trapped civilians, according to Reuters. The officials said such steps could make other countries look more favorably on some Iranian...
Syria’s Islamic Front, the country’s biggest rebel alliance, in a statement issued today called for protecting Immigrant Jihadists in Syria and their families as response to the ongoing battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) “Immigrant Jihadists are...
Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...
Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...
A Turkish photographer kidnapped while covering the civil war in neighboring Syria has been freed, Turkey’s state news agency said Sunday. Bunyamin Aygun, who works for the newspaper Milliyet, was taken hostage by radical Islamists late last year during a reporting...
