The United States and Russia on Saturday agreed on an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year. In a landmark deal thrashed out in talks spanning three days, the two powers gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a week to hand over the details and...

Palestinian Association for Human Rights called all international humanitarian organizations and bodies for immediate intervention to stop violation in rights of detainees’ in Syrian regime’s prisons. This call followed news of killing 5 Palestinian detainees within a week....

The Obama administration will not press for U.N. authorization to use force against Syria if it reneges on any agreement to give up its chemical weapons, senior administration officials said Friday. The Russians have made clear in talks here between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and...

    'They thought it was an American Aid mission, the Mission flag, which was looming, seemed likely of the United States, where the Jihadists didn't recognize that it was the Malaysian flag, though, Abo Obeida was killed in an unintentionally mistake, leader in...

Al-Farouk battalions denied the accusation of Al-Qaeda-linked group, the 'State of Iraq and al-Sham' by treason and cooperation with Assad regime.  The well-known battalions said in a statement circulated by social media that all ISIS allegations is completely fake, the...

The main Syrian exile opposition group, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, issued  a statement  on Friday denouncing Syria’s willingness to join the Chemical Weapons Convention as a feint by the government of President Bashar al-Assad and saying,...

 Sweden on Friday advised Syrians against rushing to its embassies in a futile bid for asylum, saying that only those already in Sweden could apply.   In early September, Sweden became the first and so far only European Union country to promise blanket asylum to all...

Syrian government forces are systematically attacking hospitals and medical staff members and denying treatment to the sick and wounded from areas controlled or affiliated with the opposition, United Nations investigators said Friday in a new report that also detailed the use of hospitals as...

 Saudi Arabia, quietly cooperating with American and British intelligence and other Arab governments, has modestly increased deliveries of weapons to rebels fighting in southern Syria, the rebels say. But the shipments have not been large enough to assuage rebel frustration that they...

 Assad forces in Aleppo killed and wounded number of its troops by so-called a friendly fire after shelling a checkpoint in the al-Ashrafieh district affiliated to regime Army, Zaman Alwasl reporter said .  Syrian Army have long history in killing its troops,...

   Syrian activists have organized a sit-in in Istanbul in solidarity with Ghouta  victims who passed away by Assad's chemical attacks with death tool reached 1500 people, mostly women and children in Aug 21.  Nour, 25, told Zaman Alwasl, ''Our sit in...

  A report by U.N. chemical weapons experts will likely confirm that poison gas was used in an Aug. 21 attack on Damascus suburbs that killed hundreds of people, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.   "I believe that the report will be an...

It’s been almost a month since Egyptian security forces brutally dispersed the Muslim Brotherhood protest camps, and Cairo’s physical scars have mostly healed. At Nahda Square, the site of the smaller of the two pro-Morsi “sit-in” protests, only the blackened palm trees and scorched lawns...

After each campaign by Bashar al-Assad forces and its Militias on rebels-held areas, the Alawite civilians and loyalist paramilitaries from the National Defence Force are storming the newly recaptured towns and villages, looting Sunni homes and often setting them on fire, with the apparent...

Syria has scattered its stockpile of chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites in a bid to complicate U.S. efforts to track them, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. A secretive Syrian military unit had been given responsibility to shift the arsenal of poison gases and munitions,...

As the threat of an imminent U.S. attack on  Syria  dims, supporters and officials in the regime of Syrian President  Bashar Assad  are quietly worrying about another potential crisis, one that hits even closer to home. Speculation in Damascus that the...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that prospects for a resumption in the Syrian peace process are riding on the outcome of U.S.-Russian talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal that lurched into a second day. As...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin says that Syria's move to join an international convention banning chemical weapons has proven its good faith. Speaking at a summit of an international security grouping dominated by Russia and China, Putin said Friday the move showed that Syria has "serious...

Yara Sabri confirmed on her face-book page that Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” has arrested artist Waseem Mikdad. Yara Sabri, the famous Syrian actress, who is  very well known of her devotion her time to cover the detainees life conditions, has  not...

Secretary of State John Kerry today rejected a call from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the U.S. to drop its threat of force before Syria gives up its  chemical weapons . "President Obama has made clear that should diplomacy fail, force might be necessary to deter and degrade...