Italian government has said that it supports Iran's positive presence in Geneva II conference on Syria. "We want positive presence of Iran in the international conference of Geneva II on Syria crisis," Xinhua reported citing Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino here Sunday in a...
At least six people have been killed on Sunday in the central Syrian province of Homs, five of them schoolchildren, the official SANA news agency reported. “Terrorists blew up a car bomb near the primary school in the town of Omm al-Amd in the countryside outside Homs,...
An employee of a money transfer service in Syria claimed that the Syrian government has issued a decision banning the sending of remittances to non-Syrians inside the country, a Palestinian organization said on Friday, Ma’an News Agency said. An employee of...
By ramping up his demands of any final nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to stem the tide of international diplomacy which has turned against him in recent weeks. Netanyahu was stung by an interim agreement...
Syrian cyber activists have circulated online a photo for 10-year-old wounded girl in border Turkish hospital, was injured due to the ongoing Assad offensive on Aleppo by barrel bombs. The girl and her father, who missed her during the shelling, were the only family...
At least 100 people, including children, were killed on Sunday when Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised "barrel bombs" in the northern province of Aleppo, local activists said. Human Rights Watch said in a report over the weekend that barrel bomb...
Half a million people across war-hit Syria have been wounded, many of them lacking access to basic healthcare and treatment, the International Committee for the Red Cross said on Sunday. "At least half a million people have been wounded across the country and millions remain displaced and...
Dozens of people were killed in an eighth day of air strikes on Aleppo in Syria on Sunday, a watchdog said, as a bombing in Homs killed five schoolchildren. "Dozens of people were killed or wounded" in attacks that saw loyalist warplanes drop so-called barrel bombs near...
Abu Shamel, a Suicide bomber who was responsible of the famous Tamico blast last October, has been killed after detonating himself in Adra, northeast Damascus, killing 60 soldiers of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, activists said. The fighter who...
Syrian security forces detained another member of the regime-tolerated opposition on Saturday, his party said, accusing the authorities of trying to "terrorise" the group into silence. "This morning (Saturday), Monzer Khaddam, a member of the National Coordination Body's executive...
Syrian actress Nanda Mohammad trained Syrian refugee women for six weeks to reinterpret "The Trojan Women", a tragedy by Greek playwright Euripides on the Greeks' treatment of Trojan women after the fall of Troy. "The Syria Trojan Women" traces the parallels between the...
The body of a British doctor who died earlier this week in a Syrian prison, only days before he was expected to be freed after 13 months of detention, has arrived in Beirut en route to the United Kingdom. A Red Cross ambulance carried the coffin of Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old...
The destiny of youngest convicted prisoner, Tal Al Mallouhi, still vague after 4 years of detention and two months of court verdict to be freed. A security source assured that Al Malouhi was taken as a ‘hostage’ by State Security Branch 258 in Damascus from Adra...
A total of 126 journalists and other media workers around the world have died on the job this year, with Syria the most dangerous place to work for the second year in a row, the International News Safety Institute said on Friday. That was 21 fewer than last year, but...
Syrian forces are "wreaking disaster" on Aleppo, killing hundreds in air strikes on the city, Human Rights Watch said Saturday, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks with Iran's foreign minister. "The Syrian air force is either criminally...
The leader of the most powerful rebel group in Syria, Ahrar al-Sham, says he will not recognise any agreement reached in the Geneva peace conference planned for January. Hassan Aboud, speaking to Al Jazeera from an undisclosed location inside Syria, said the group would...
Assad security forces arrested a young mother, leaving her infant for strangers in the street days ago, activists said. Mountaha was crossing regime's checkpoints in the embattled neighborhood of Barzeh when she discovered that her name and her husband name on...
Two rebel commanders have been missed in Aleppo countryside on Wednesday, local sources in the city of Atareb told Zaman Alwasl. Nezam Barakat, leader of Atareb Martyrs brigade, an Islamic Front unit, and Musab Mansour leader of Ahrar Atareb battalion. ...
Syrian Rebels have captured Kindi Hospital, converted into a regime military headquarters barracks, on Friday in Aleppo after a siege since April and months of attacks, according to the Syrian Local Coordination Committees. The Islamic Front unit Liwa al-Tawhid reported the...
Reuters Photojournalist, Mulham Barakat, passed away Friday near Al Kendi Hospital in Aleppo, during his covering to the ongoing battles between rebels and forces loyal to Bashar Al Assad, Lens of Young Halabi F.B reported. Media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF)...
