A Syrian rebel group claims that it has ambushed and killed a group of Russian mercenaries who may have been working for a Chinese security contractor. The jihadist fighters from an Al Qaeda affiliate “Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS)” claim to have killed the...

Albania rejected on Friday a U.S. request to host the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, dealing a blow to a U.S.-Russian accord to eliminate the nerve agents from the country's protracted civil war. Negotiations went down to the wire, delaying the scheduled adoption on...

A Syrian rebel commander in a main Islamist brigade was killed and two others were injured in an air strike by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Aleppo, activists said on Friday, in a setback to rebels defending the city against a loyalist attack. Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub...

  The Secretary General of the Syrian Coalition Badraldin Jamous met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Istanbul, who repeated that his Government is waiting for the Syrian Coalition to accept an invitation to visit Moscow, according to a statement by the...

  Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani accused the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria of “autocracy,” and rejected its unilateral declaration of independence in Syria’s Kurdish northeast.   He said the PYD was missing “a golden...

  Militant Islamist rebels in   Syria   linked to   al-Qaeda   have asked for "understanding and forgiveness" for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man's head. In a public appearance filmed and posted online,...

More than two and a half years into the civil war devastating Syria, the United States and  Russia  are pushing the combatants to the negotiating table in Geneva, but on terms that mark a shift in favor of Bashar al-Assad against the increasingly fragmented rebels seeking to...

North Korea has denied it is sending military aid to the Syrian government, one of its few close allies, in its battle against rebel forces after media reports said Pyongyang had sent advisers and helicopter pilots.   "Some foreign media are floating misinformation...

An armed group broke into the Office of Zaman Alwasl in Aleppo, in search of  our reporter, Ra’fat Al-Rifaei, who has been asked for leaving hours before the assault over torrent of threats, late on Thursday.   According to eyewitnesses and colleagues...

Long-proposed peace talks on Syria’s civil war will reportedly begin on Dec. 12, according to AFP. Citing the Syrian newspaper Al-Watan, which credited diplomats in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that the date would be...

  Satellite photos have confirmed that a target attacked two weeks ago near the Syrian port of Latakia was a battery of advanced anti-aircraft missiles, according to the Israeli magazine, Israel Defense. The battery was in the process of upgrading that would have made...

The Islamic political parties to increase in Syria, days after establishing al- Waad party (The Promise) by Muslim Brotherhood, 40 Islamic dissidents to meet in Istanbul very shortly to put a framework and stucture for a new political party to be known by its Arabic name, ...

  Islamist groups in northern Syria are weakening after months of fighting and Kurdish militias are gaining ground, a top Kurdish leader said on Wednesday, vowing to continue their advances. Saleh Muslim, head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Reuters...

  Attacks against Shiites, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 39 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith.   The bloodshed came as a flood of...

Hezbollah fighters are going to stay in Syria “as long as they are needed” by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces battling rebels, head of the Shiite movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said during his second appearance in public marking a Shiite religious occasion. “As long as the reasons (to fight...

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that the Syria issue was seriously affecting neighbouring Lebanon. In a report to the Security Council, he stated that 800,000 refugees have fled to Lebanon due to the ongoing war in Syria and this has...

A coalition member assured to Zaman Alwasl that the opposition Interim government to hold its first meeting today after 48 hours since its formation. Ahmed Salih Toumeh, the interim prime minister in a press conference held in Istanbul yesterday called on Syrian people to help...

Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported by...

Southern districts that have been under rebel control for more than a year are falling one by one, Damascus-based activist Rami al-Sayyed said to Reuters, referring to gains by Assad's forces around the capital. Zaman Alwasl sources assured that mass mobilization is taking...

Kurdish militias seized another seven villages in northeastern  Syria , activists said on Wednesday, a day after the fighters' political wing announced an interim administration that aims to carve out an autonomous Syrian Kurdish region. Kurds, often described as the world's...