Syrian Regime's Deputy Chief Mufti gives Bashar al-Assad's army soldiers religious permission to rape women in order to take revenge on them and on rebel forces. Human rights groups report that thousands of women have been raped by Syrian army soldiers in the ongoing war,...

More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war that began in March 2011, an NGO said on Wednesday. The tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as renewed regime air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo killed at...

  The Local Coordination Committees claim that 112 people died across Syria on Wednesday. In Aleppo Province, which has endured an escalated campaign of regime bombing since December 14, there were 44 deaths. In Damascus and its suburbs, 32 people were killed, while 17...

  A large car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 20 in a Hezbollah bastion in south Beirut on Thursday, a health ministry source told AFP. "According to an initial toll, five people have been killed and more than 20 injured," the source said on condition of...

The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit on Wednesday for hacking into the social media accounts of Internet calling service Skype. The group also posted the contact information of Steve Ballmer, ...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition has condemned the killing of Dr. Hussein al-Suleiman, also known as Abu Rayyan, by the Islamic State in Iraq and Th e  L e vant  in Tel Abyad in Raqqa Province. Suleiman, a member of the insurgent faction Ahrar...

Top officials of the main two opposition groups in Syria, western-backed National Coalition and Russian-backed National Coordination Body, had met in Cairo since two weeks to bolster dialogue between and boost their cohesion ahead of Geneva 2, well-informed source told Zaman...

  Turkish gendarmes reportedly discovered weapons and ammunition after pursuing a truck bound for Syria in the southern province of Hatay on Wednesday. Acting on a tip, gendarmes stopped a truck that allegedly belongs to the Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH) on a road...

The Islamic Front declares that it is launching “Revenge Foray”, against Bashar al-Assad's army positions in Latakia Province in western Syria, in response to last month’s mass killing of civilians by the Syrian military’s airstrikes in and near Aleppo.

A senior Hezbollah commander,   speaking to Martin Chulov of The Guardian , explains the reason for the Lebanese organization’s intervention alongside the Assad regime this spring: We are defending our lands. We are defending our interests. If the takfiris [Sunni...

Dr.   Hussein Suleiman (Abu Rayan), a commander from Ahrar Ashaam,  has been killed after he was arrested by ISIL on December, in the town of  Makanah in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, Ahrar Al Sham media center reported . Ahrar Al...

        A member of a prominent opposition group demanded Monday that the National Coalition leadership resign en masse for its failure to defend Syrians inside the country. The proposal was made by Marwan Hajjo Rifai, a founding member of the Syrian...

  Lebanese troops arrested the leader of the al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for a double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Lebanon in November, the defense minister told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. Maged al-Maged, the "emir" of the Abdullah...

     The Vatican announced Tuesday it would host a workshop early in the new year to brainstorm peaceful solutions to the ongoing civil war in Syria. The Vatican has invited leading figures including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Mohamed...

A story from the town of Adra, 12 miles north of Damascus, capturing the confusion, information & propaganda, and tragedy of Syria’s conflict…. The regime claimed on Sunday that it had evacuated more than 5,000 civilians from Adra, following an insurgent offensive in...

  More than 130,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. In a new tally, the group said 130,433 people have been killed since the conflict began in March...

Norwegian and Danish ships waiting to remove Syria's chemical weapons are returning to port in Cyprus, signalling a key deadline will not be met. Bad weather, shifting battle lines and road closures are being blamed for the delay. The international mission is waiting for Syria's...

Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks said Tuesday it had no knowledge of and did not approve a delegation to Syria which met President Bashar al-Assad and included members of Australia’s WikiLeaks Party. The delegation, aimed at showing solidarity with the Syrian people and...

Local sources in Idlib province assured that some armed groups, which claimed operating under Free Syrian Army, had imposed royalties on people, who cross their checkpoints which surround their rural villages of Salkeen and Harem. The bad security conditions pushed many...

A new Syrian opposition bloc seeks to form new body instead of the west-backed National Coalition in their upcoming meeting in Cordoba, the southern city of Spain on January 9 and 10, Special source told Zaman Alwasl. More than 200 participants will attend the conference,...