Rebels entered Maloula, the Christian town  and kept away from churches Mother Pelagia  Sayah, the Head of the Saint Mar Takla monastery in Maloula, the last inhabitant Aramaic town in the world near Damascus in Syria, denied any attack on churches and monasteries in...

The cost of keeping warships in the Mediterranean will rise as the Obama administration and Congress deliberate on whether to launch a punitive attack on Syria, the Navy’s top officer said Thursday. Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, said he might need to...

 China warned on Thursday that a military strike on Syria would hurt the global economy, in particular by causing oil prices to rise, and reiterated its calls for a political solution to the civil war.     "Military action would have a negative impact on the global...

Hezbollah is preparing to defend Damascus from an invasion by the Syrian rebels following a possible US strike, as well as preparing for retaliation against Israel if the situation in the area calls for it, Lebanese sources told Saudi newspaper  Okaz  on Thursday. The sources told...

The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. If you found...

Syria’s deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday that the regime has taken “every measure” to respond to any U.S. attack, vowing not to change its position even if a third world war erupts. In an exclusive interview with AFP, Faisal Muqdad said the government would counter a potential...

Owners of commercial shacks in city of Homs are obliged to pay royalties to the Political security branch. Activists said the taxes of the commercial stores and small shacks should be paid to the municipality of the city but the security militants are trying to gain money where...

Sister Agnes-Mariam de la Croix feared that the United States would attack Syria on Saturday night.  She expected the attack to be massive and would bring disaster to Syria and the entire region. According to Sister Agnes-Mariam, there are today 150,000 well-trained jihadist...

An adviser to Bashar al Assad accuses the US of making up evidence, as President Barack Obama seeks support for military action. One of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's advisers has said the United States is using "lies" and "fabrications" to justify the use of the military force. Dr...

  Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Dana town of Idlib province   is working on regulating people’s lives such as traffic control, work monitoring and reducing chaos on Bazaar day that takes place every Monday, local sources reported to Zaman Alwasl   ....

  Former Syrian Defence Minister General Ali Habib, a prominent member of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, has not defected and is now in his house not in  Turkey , Syrian News Agency SANA said not as Reuters reported according to senior member of the opposition Syrian...

    Syrian official media intentionally incites hatred through violent scenes of killing and destruction. Since the break-out of the Syrian revolution that was sparked by children in Dara’a, where they were tortured and their nails taken off by Syrian regime intelligence...

 German Intelligence spied on a phone call between senior official in Hezbollah and the Iranian Ambassador to Damascus pointing to Bashar’s responsibility for Chemical attack on al-Ghouta The German newspaper "Der Spiegel" reported that German intelligence confident that...

Activists confirmed the death of Syrian sports fan, Rayek Trak al-Shaisi, in Deir al-Zour during battles between Assad's forces and rebel brigades. Al-Shaisi was known as a very active sport Fan for Syrian team in Kuwait, after he stormed in the playground aiming to Ali Saba al-Salem...

Amid growing signs of imminent western military intervention in Syria, Reporters Without Borders has compiled figures that show that around 100 news providers have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict in March 2011. They include 25 professional journalists (six of them foreign)...

Syria’s ambassador to the UN said his country was “fed up with wars” and called any allegations of using chemical weapons “false and unfounded” in an exclusive and combative interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “We haven't declared war to the United States or to any of our...

   FSA controlled “Ma'aret Alertik” near Aleppo and preparing for exchange deal with the regime A field source told  Zaman Alwasl that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) manage to control a large number of residential blocks in "Ma'rret Alertik" region, and small number...

President  Barack Obama  won the backing of key figures in the U.S. Congress, including Republicans, in his call for limited U.S. strikes on Syria  to punish President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. Leaders of the U.S. Senate...

 President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia "doesn't exclude" supporting a U.N. resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people. In a wide-ranging interview with The...

A senior Coalition member disclosed Assad had moved 3 chemical shipments into fortified military bases. Mr. Khaled Saleh, Coalition press officer told the reporters after the weekly meeting of the opposition that Coalition has obtained precious information regarding the regime...