In a video statement posted on the Internet, rebels of Aleppo said that remarkable gains have been achieved in the southern countryside of the embattled city. 13 villages have become under the Islamic rebels control, activists said. The Islamic...
Two Syrian doctors made a successful surgical operation by re-planting a child's palm that was mostly amputated in Bab al-Hawa Hospital near the Turkish borders. Dr. Joma’a Abi Ras and Dr. Mohamed Al-Jawwash have achieved a very critical surgery when an 8-year-old child...
The Syrian market suffers a remarkable shortage in some kinds of drugs as most pharmaceutical laboratories in northern Syria are out of service. The Minister of Health Saad Naif told local media that 72 kinds of medicines are missing from the market given the economic sanctions on the...
As the boom of shelling resounded along Turkey’s border with Syria here on a recent afternoon, Zakaria Deeb had nowhere left to run. He had traveled 100 miles to Kilis with his family, chasing a false rumor that refugees would be allowed into a Turkish-run camp in the city, about...
Representatives from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affair in Amman have met journalists working in Syria al-Shaab Satellite Channel to inform them of shutting down the channel, besides forcing them to write a pledge to stop working. Many other channels, Syrian or...
A meeting of UN, US and Russian envoys on Monday is expected to agree that a Syria peace conference should be held in January, diplomats said. UN leader Ban Ki-moon is to announce the date shortly after the meeting in Geneva, the envoys said. The conference on the worsening...
Denmark’s security service said Sunday it suspects around 80 people have travelled from Denmark to Syria to join the civil war since mid-2012. In a report, the service known as PET said those who travel to Syria are mainly Sunni Muslim men...
Pro-Assad activists have accused Hezbollah of treason Sunday due to the disobedience of Syrian Army orders what cost large number of causalities within regular army in eastern Damascus suburbs . Assad’s Servant, well-known facebook page loyal to Bashar al-Assad, said...
More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says. The...
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda main branch in Syria, issued a circular, warning its jihadists of moving or touring without an escort of local fighters over kidnapping 7 foreign jihadists in Raqqa, east Syria so far, field sources told Zaman Alwasl. The Islamic Movement of Ahrar...
Fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said on Sunday. It began on Friday when rebel units attacked a string of...
Syria's regime hailed the "historic" nuclear deal between its ally Iran and world powers Sunday as proof that negotiations rather than military action were the best way to resolve crises. Syria "considers it to be a historic accord which guarantees the interests of the brotherly...
Syrian revolutionary activists assured killing of the prominent war reporter Mohamed al-Saeed in Damascus countryside with three other citizen journalists by Shiite forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad. Ammar Tabajo,who used the alias Mohammed Saeed had been provided information to many...
The United States, Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia and others held secret and informal discussions on Thursday to devise a strategy for improving the U.N.'s stalled relief effort in Syria, according to diplomatic sources familiar with the effort. The meeting -- which was held at the...
Rebel fighters targeted the Homs oil refinery with 4 Grad missiles, causing a fire to break out in the area and the injury of 2 workers, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. In relevant development, parts of the al-Wa'er neighbourhood of Homs were bombarded by...
At least 40 people were killed on Saturday in Syrian regime air strikes on the northern city of Aleppo and surrounding areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syria's second city and onetime commercial hub has seen intense fighting for more than a year...
Syria's most senior army defector, General Mustafa al-Sheikh has arrived to Sweden in company with his older son where ‘’they applied for a political Asylum,’’ well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. Al-Sheikh had entered Sweden illegally through a smuggling network,...
Al Qaeda in Aleppo issued fatwa to cut off the heads of opposition coalition members as well heads of Assad's loyalists. Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Masri, the military commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant in al-Bab city near Aleppo said, ‘‘Whoever supports basher...
US, Russian and UN envoys will meet in Geneva on Monday aiming to pin down a date for an international conference on the Syria conflict, a UN spokesperson said Friday. Diplomats say UN leader Ban Ki-moon should announce a date after the Geneva talks for a peace conference...
In Lebanon's Bekaa valley, the sun is still shining. But soon temperatures will dip and snow will blanket fields that house hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Their shelters are little more than wooden frames covered with tarpaulins or, in some cases, plastic sacks sewn...
