Zaman Alwasl exclusively publishes the latest decisions were issued by the main stream opposition in Istanbul meeting in September 15. The first decision to entrust Dr. Jalal Khanji forming a committee to stand on the situation of...
A month after rockets carrying chemical payloads rained down on the suburbs of Damascus, doctors say hundreds are still suffering the ill effects of sarin poisoning. But the horror of the gas attack is being overtaken by continuing shelling and airstrikes, as well as by malnutrition and...
As social media abound with horror stories of jihadists murdering minorities in Syria, a group of elderly Christians in Aleppo and the rebels who care for them portray a different reality. They object to attempts, including by President Bashar al-Assad, to portray everyone fighting to...
Pro-Assad social media reported killing of 23 soldiers of Assad forces and its backed militia, Shabiha, near the city of Mesiaf in Hamah Province. The clashes took place near the christian city of Mhardeh between rebels and 'al-Bustan' association militants- pro-Assad...
Syria was there in many artistic works have been presented in "Biennale” festival taking place in Istanbul in Turkey. The Turkish artist "Antonio Kosantino” participated in two pictures, one of them was a scene from Banias, the Syrian costal city, while the...
Al-Islam Brigade denied in a statement the call for mobilization and asking Ghouta's youth to join immediately the ranks of rebels on the battlefronts within 24 hours or will be there by force. Zahran Alloush, Leader of the Islam Brigade said we didn't sign...
Syria has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday. Spokesman Michael Luhan told The Associated Press that the declaration is "being reviewed by our verification division." The...
Syria’s opposition National Coalition on Friday condemned attacks by al-Qaeda affiliates on rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The coalition said recent violence carried out by loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on the FSA was entirely reprehensible. “The...
Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa's novel "In Praise of Hatred" is in the list of "Top 100 Novels of All Time" with George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Emily Bronte, E. M. Forster,...
Jihad is no more a choice, according to a statement issued by Shariah Authority of Liwa'a al-Islam (Islam Brigade) and other Jihadist groups in Ghouta and Damascus suburbs. The circular demanded all Young men who born between (1994 -1983)...
Islamist rebels from the Russian Caucasus who are fighting alongside Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria could pose a serious security threat to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, analysts say. Russia has pulled out all the stops to host the Olympic Games, its first major international sports...
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said Thursday his government was ready to "help facilitate dialogue" between the Syrian government and the opposition. "We must join hands to constructively work toward national dialogue, whether in Syria or Bahrain. We must create an atmosphere where peoples...
A ceasefire has been reached between the Free Syrian Army and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in the town of Azaz, near The Turkish borders under the patronage of al-Tawhid brigade, according to activists . Details of ISIS &FSA deal;...
Russia is willing to participate in the transportation and destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, but only as part of an international coalition, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. Shoigu's comments at the Valdai forum in Russia's Novgorod region --...
Ahmed Ghazali, who's a field leader in the northern storm brigade (al-Aasifa) has revealed to Zaman Alwasl the main reasons which triggered the fight in Azaz, the border town north Syria, between militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the...
The Islamic Ahrar al-Sham Movement has denied any engagement or involvement in the fighting that occurred in Azaz, northern Aleppo or in Abo Kamal, near the Syrian-Iraqi borders . In a statement obtained by Zaman Alwasl, the Islamic group said, no one of our fighters have...
Ahl al-Athar, Islamic brigade, has appealed again through Zaman Alwasl to the National Coalition and Chiefs of Staff to protect the Oil fields north east Syria. ''We captured some oil extraction equipment before being stolen by thugs 4 months ago, senior leader in 'Ahl...
Germany exported 111 tonnes of chemicals to Syria between 2002 and 2006 that could be used in the production of sarin gas, according to a government document published on Wednesday . But the government rejected a suggestion...
US Senator John McCain has penned a blistering column for Russian media, telling the Russian people that their President Vladimir Putin is a dissent-quashing tyrant who "doesn't believe in you." The senior US politician, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, accused Putin and his...
Donor countries, among them France, Qatar and Russia, are failing to adequately provide urgently-needed funding for the humanitarian crisis in Syria, an international aid agency said. Oxfam, in a report released on Thursday, said its research revealed that many donor countries are not...
