Social networks have circulated news about attacking Kaftin village of Druze majority at Jabal al-Zawiya region in Idlib province, by  Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” where they committed a massacre against children, women and the elderly, around 30 people were...

Rebel's Chiefs of Staff has excluded al-Qaeda affiliates from its expansion list, source said to Zaman Alwasl. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in The Free Syrian Army hold consultations meetings for few days, started yesterday  in Antakya, Turkey to discus expanding the body of...

A group of Syrian activists known for its hacking was briefly able to redirect a link on the  @barackobama  Twitter feed to one of its own videos, according to the people who maintain the Twitter feed. The tweet from the account, which is run by Organizing for Action, initially...

  A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war   Fifteen days into his job as  Lebanon ’s top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something big...

Leader of Lebanese Hezbollah movement accuses Saudi Arabia of blocking political solution to the conflict in Syria. The head of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah and key Damascus ally Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of blocking a political solution to the conflict in Syria....

Bashar al-Assad has contracted with North-Korean's pilots to command his war planes after losing the trust in Syrian pilots, veteran Dissident said according to  Deutsche  Press agency.  Dr. Burhan Ghalioun, former National Council leader, revealed on his...

  Rebels are still controlling the northern and eastern parts of the Christian town of Sadad, 60 km east Homs, as the fighting is still continuing,   Zaman Alwasl local reporter said.  Early today, Assad Army forces are said to have retook a Christian town of...

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Damascus on Monday, as part of the next leg of his regional tour to garner support for a peace conference on Syria. Brahimi flew in to Beirut from Tehran and was to travel overland to Damascus the same day, making his first visit to...

  A 35-year-old man was killed in the southeastern Turkish town of Ceylanpinar early on Monday when a stray mortar shell fired across the border from Syria struck a house near the frontier, security sources said. The shell was fired during clashes between Kurdish and...

UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi flew in to Beirut on Monday on his way to Damascus to try to whip up support for a peace conference on Syria, airport sources said.   Brahimi arrived from Tehran, where he said it was "necessary" for Iran, a key ally of the Damascus...

China supports the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to play an role in solving the issue of Syria's chemical weapons, a spokeswoman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.   "The Syrian government has...

Shabiha, Pro-Assad militia has breached a planned truce in al-Waer neighborhood in Homs which was supposed to open all blocked crossings to allow people breaking the siege after 3 week of suffering, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Also, sources said that 7 people have been...

Kurdish militants sought to consolidate their control of an oil-producing region in northeastern Syria  on Sunday after seizing a border crossing with Iraq  from Islamist rebels, activists said. Fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought in...

        A Sunni militant group, Jaish-ul Adl, has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 14 Iranian border guards in the country’s mountainous southeast, ISNA news agency reported Sunday. The hitherto-unknown Jaish-ul Adl (Army of Justice)...

Just days ago in London, I listened with sadness and shock as Ahmad Jarba and leaders of the moderate Syrian opposition described how ordinary Syrians with no links to the civil war are forced to eat stray dogs and cats to survive a campaign of deprivation waged by the Assad regime....

Syria's armed opposition in a statement posted on YouTube yesterday said Geneva II peace conference in no more than a conspiracy on the Syrian people. 19 factions, including the Islam Army and Ahrar al-Sham assured their refusal for any solution will keep Bashar al-Assad or...

  Its almost 15 months since the news agencies surfaced the first such incident since the Syrian uprising on March 15, 2011, ''Syrian air force pilot  flew into neighboring Jordan and defected with his Russian-made fighter jet.'' Zaman Alwasl was pleased to...

    Syria handed over a detailed plan to destroy its chemical stockpile on time, international watchdog OPCW said Sunday. "On 24 October 2013, the Syrian Arab Republic submitted to the OPCW its formal initial declaration covering its chemical weapons programme," the watchdog...

The death toll from a week of clashes in Lebanon between supporters and opponents of Syria’s regime has risen to 13, a security official said on Sunday. Two people died in clashes on Saturday and another two were killed early on Sunday in the northern port city of Tripoli, the official...

      The UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said Saturday from Tehran that Iran’s participation at the Geneva II conference on the Syrian crisis, scheduled for next month, was essential. Diplomat sources revealed...