Following a report earlier this month in the British newspaper The Times claiming Hizbollah was withdrawing significant forces from  Syria , there was buzz on social media that this could be the beginning of a broader pullout or even a sign of defeat for Lebanon’s...

Saudi King Abdullah has received a telephone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the latest regional and international issues, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday. “During the telephone conversation, they reviewed bilateral relations between the...

 As the latest jihadist-Kurdish military showdown eases in northeast Syria, Baghdad is keeping a close watch on a battle which threatens even greater instability in Iraq. Kurdish forces and Al-Qaeda-linked groups have for weeks fought over territory, with the Kurds taking over a...

The total cost of Syria's almost three-year-long conflict reached 103.1 billion dollars in the first half of 2013, the United Nations said on Thursday. The devastating civil war has almost completely halted industrial activity in Syria, said a senior official from the...

At least two people were killed in a mortar attack on a church and a Christian school in the Syrian capital Damascus, activists said on Monday. The two shells were fired on the city's al-Qasssaa quarter and struck the Church of the Cross and St John's school, activists from...

  Syria  should immediately stop using incendiary weapons, Human Rights Watch said today in a  report  which documents at least 56 attacks using the weapons since November 2012. Human Rights Watch will present its concerns at the annual meeting of the Convention on...

Tension between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the biggest threat to world security, Iran's foreign minister has said. Mohammad Javad Zarif told the BBC in comments published on Monday, "I think we need to come to understand that a sectarian divide in the Islamic world is a...

The Syrian National Coalition agreed on Monday to participate in peace talks in Geneva which are aimed at bringing together the opposition and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to create a transition government and end Syria’s two-year conflict But the Syrian oppostion’s...

With a string of military gains across northeastern  Syria , a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn country, posing a dilemma for regional powers. Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Kurds...

Egypt detained more than 1,500 refugees from Syria, including Palestinians and 250 children, before forcing most to leave the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday. The New York-based watchdog said the refugees were detained for weeks and even months, and that some of the...

  Religious extremism has noticeably increased among armed groups and fighting battalions on ground in Syria. Many activists tried to understand reasons behind this phenomenon; especially it is strange and was not known in the Syria society. Moreover, the...

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah was the subject of mocking at a Lebanese television program this week, raising anger among his supporters who protested against the show. His supporters took to the streets on Friday, burning tires and blocking roads in several parts of Lebanon. It...

A Syrian lawmaker kidnapped by opposition jihadist fighters earlier this year was executed last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. A parliamentary source in Damascus, on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Mujhem al-Sahu from Deir Ezzor province in...

A Christian writer vows to convert to Islam if al-Qaeda main branch in Syria will release the Rev. Paolo Dall'Oglio, Jesuit Priest who was kidnapped in Raqqa, North east Syria last June. Mikhael Saad, a veteran Syrian dissident, who lives in Montreal, Canada, has...

Doha Centre for Media Freedom (DCMF) is organizing six training workshops for Syrian journalists, which will be held in Turkey and Jordan over the coming two months. From November 17-23, the centre is hosting two workshops in Istanbul; the first on international standards...

    The final list of the Syrian opposition Interim government is to be consisted of ten ministers only, well-informed source revealed exclusively to Zaman Alwasl from Istanbul where the National Coalition meeting is taking place. Mr. Ahmad Toumeh will handle the...

Al-Qaeda’s main branch in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has raided a wedding party in the suburb of Aleppo and ordered stopping music and singing, the Asharq al-Awsat reported, quoting Syrian activists. “One leader of the Islamic State warned residents that if...

    FIFA has ruled out any possibility that Qatar could co-host the 2022 World Cup with neighboring countries, Sepp Blatter said on Saturday. The FIFA president added that soccer’s governing body had discarded a January-February World Cup in 2022 out of respect for...

Martyr Samira Kayyali, 20-year-old, has been kidnapped and killed by unknown armed group near Kafr Hamra town  in the northern Aleppo, during her trip to Turkey 40 days ago, activists reported.   Sources said that her body has been found buried in a...

Throughout the bloody Syrian conflict, the ruling regime of President   Bashar Assad   has derided the armed opposition for its reliance on foreign fighters, usually seasoned militants that come from the battlefields of   Chechnya ,   Pakistan ,...