14 Syrian tribes in Raqqa, east Syria have reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant, al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria . A mere year ago, the same tribes pledged allegiance to Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Hassan, Opinion deputy editor for The...

  Photos posted by pro-al-Qaeda Facebook pages purporting confiscating huge amounts of gold and money by The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after attacking rebel group headquarter in Aleppo province, so-called 'Bader Brigade'. ISIL recently launched big campaign...

  Shariah council in Aleppo, affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant, has sentenced the previous leader of Ghuraba' al-Sham battalion Hassan Jazara to death, after days of detaining him along with dozens of supporters in al-Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo...

   Rebels' concerns have dramatically mounted amid fears of imminent siege for their areas in Aleppo after the fall of Safira town by the Assad army, according to Zaman Alwasl sources. The town of Safira lies on a road the army said would be used to send in...

  A senior army officer and chemical-weapons specialist who defected from Bashar al-Assad’s forces said that Regime's army officials have made a deal with Houthis in Yemen to sell tons of toxic chemical substances for $ 1 billion, according to the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan....

  Turkey   and   Iran   said on Friday they had common concerns about the increasingly sectarian nature of Syria's civil war, signaling a thaw in a key Middle Eastern relationship strained by stark differences over the conflict. Iran  ...

  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday he was seeking U.S. help to counter a resurgent al-Qaeda in his country and blamed the revival of the extremist group on power vacuums in the region rather than divisive Iraqi policies. On his first visit to Washington...

The Colonel held out through two years of conflict, but recently the economic conditions there have become untenable.   In 2006, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened Syria’s first American restaurant in Damascus. The franchise weathered more than two and a half years of war, but...

The UN food aid agency said Friday that it feared a rise in malnutrition among children trapped in besieged communities in Syria where fighting has halted supply convoys. "The World Food Programme is concerned about the fate of many Syrians trapped in conflict areas and still in need of...

  Orient TV reporter has been kidnapped in Aleppo in area controlled by al-Qaeda affiliate, the State of Iraq and The Levant, media sources said to Zaman Alwasl . Mouayyed Salloum is citizen journalist and activist,  he started working as a reporter...

    Hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence and turmoil at home are being turned back by Jordan and other neighboring countries, Amnesty International said today in a new report that calls for urgent international support to increase humanitarian aid and resettlement to...

International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on  Syria  in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and Western officials said. Failure of the main Syrian National Coalition to...

  Syrian intelligence agents have arrested at least 230 men out of a group of civilians who were evacuated this week from a Damascus suburb besieged by President Bashar al-Assad's forces under a rare deal with rebels, activists said on Thursday, according to Reuters. The deal had...

As cannons thundered and mortar shells exploded nearby, the young Syrian woman in a slinky dark dress and stylish bob performed a song by pop star Adele, taking refuge behind a microphone from the civil war raging outside. Performing with a guitarist at a cafe in the heart of the historic...

Intent on supplying his government with arms, oil and food, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned to Russian  banks  to access world markets , and the lenders could open more doors to him, despite a risk of isolation from the U.S. banking system. U.S. sanctions...

  Syrian troops pressed an advance Thursday on the strategic area of Sfeira, the site of several arms factories near Aleppo, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Fierce clashes are raging between the rebels and regime troops on the eastern side of...

  One Syrian security official called it the "Starvation Until Submission Campaign", blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of  Syria . Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from...

  Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia on Thursday, an Obama administration official confirmed to CNN. An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was widely reported in the Israeli press, but an attack has not been confirmed by...

Aleppo Shariah Authority threatened Assad-held areas to live without water if the electricity outage will continue in rebel-held areas. Shariah Authority in Aleppo reached a new deal with Assad regime ' Water-for-electricity'  to get back the  electricity...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has stormed the bureau of the Saudi satellite channel, AL Aan, in Aleppo city, taking over all of the equipment and weapons in the office, and claiming that the channel worked for the CIA, according to the British-based Syrian Human...