The National Coalition member in the opposition body and activist, Rima Flihan warned against the transgressions of "the Islamic State of Iraq and Damascus." Rima in a letter, which Zaman Alwasl got, addressed the coalition and its members, saying, " silence towards the acts of...

An Italian Jesuit priest who disappeared last month in eastern Syria may still be alive, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday, almost a week after it said he had been killed by al Qaeda-linked rebels. The British-based monitoring group cited sources close to the Islamic...

 Four rockets fired from Syria slammed into the northern Bekaa Valley Sunday, terrifying residents and causing them to remain in their homes. Three rockets fell on the city of Hermel, landing in the playground of a closed school and in the neighborhood of Ras al-Mal. The damage was...

  The regime army has recaptured all rebel-held positions in Latakia, President Bashar al-Assad's home province, state-run SANA news agency reported Monday quoting a military source to AFP. "The army retook control of the Nabi Ashia mountain range and adjoining areas in the...

A team of U.N. chemical weapons experts have arrived in Damascus and will start work on Monday to investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war. President Bashar al-Assad's government and the rebels fighting him have accused each other of using chemical weapons, a...

Thousands of refugees from Syria are pouring over the border into Iraqi Kurdistan, the UN refugee agency says.   Up to 10,000 crossed at Peshkhabour on Saturday, bringing the total influx since Thursday to 20,000. The UN says the reasons are not fully clear....

Journalist Fadi Saad, in a petition was applied to the Human Rights Organization, Avaaz, disclosed Russian Government intends to hand over hundreds of Syrian refugees to the Syrian Regime. Saad pointed out the recent decision issued to deliver them to authorities in Damascus....

Can the Syrian Regime threaten the Sunni- Christian "coexistence" in Homs's countryside? Unfortunately, yes. The Syrian Regime can threaten by using those who claim to be concerned for the homeland and who belong and are resident of the valley itself. They fake statements...

Again, the regime and its power minister stands behind "terrorist groups" to justify the expanded power cut in Southern Syria which left it in complete darkness since Saturday. Since the beginning of the crisis, the electricity was "a weapon" to use to subject the masses in the...

 If we don't want to see another 'Qusayr' we have to supply the  Rebels of Latakia mountains with arms and fighters,  the Regime army is advancing, it dominated  two villages were under rebels' control,  Mo'taz Shaklab, prominent opposition activist told Zaman...

One of the leaders of the Syrian opposition said on Aug. 13, 2013, that 7,000  defected military officers  from the Syrian regime army who took refuge in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, will form the nucleus of the national army that the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) seeks...

    An Israeli military official says Israeli forces have hit a target inside Syria that was the source of mortar fire into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The official said Sunday at least three shells landed near the Syrian frontier the previous evening, causing no...

Turkish Prime Minister  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan  has accused Egypt’s interim rulers of committing state terrorism and compared army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as scores more were killed in a crackdown and hundreds were besieged in Cairo’s al-Fath Mosque...

Gunmen shot dead 11 people, mostly Christians, near a town in central Syria on Saturday, state media and activists said, an attack described by a local resident as aimed at members of the religious minority. The resident, citing eyewitnesses, told The Associated Press that the gunmen...

Golden rings, a white flag, and jeans Activists question the video of "Saraya Um Al-muminin", "the brigade of the mother of believers" Activists expressed their skepticism regarding the brigade video whose "fighters" adopted al-Dahiye, a neighborhood in Beirut, explosion...

  A group of activists broadcasted a video on Youtube showing Syrian refugees detained in a closed place in the Italian City, Katanya. The refugees told a group of Italian and Arab activists they were abused by the Italian Authorities. A group of Syrian children...

Growing unrest in Egypt has forced Syrian opposition leaders to flee the country and move their headquarters to Turkey. The army-backed interim administration in Egypt has clamped down on the movement of senior figures of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), making it difficult for...

Two years ago as he hung cuffed to a wall in one of the Syrian intelligence service’s notorious detention centers, Anas Ghaibeh couldn’t have imagined a day when he’d doubt whether the regime should fall immediately. But now he says, he’s not so sure. Like many youth activists who took to...

Iran has reduced flights of arms to Syria but Iraq cannot stop them completely and should not be treated as a “whipping boy,” its foreign minister said Friday. The United States has criticized Iraq for allowing Iran to fly weapons to Syria in support of embattled President Bashar al-Assad...

Hezbollah's leader blamed Sunni extremists Friday for a car bombing that killed 22 people in a Shiite neighborhood south of Beirut, heightening fears that Lebanon will be dragged further into sectarian fallout from the war in neighboring Syria. In a defiant speech to his supporters, Sheik...