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FSA in Homs without arms

    Backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, Syrian troops unleashed some of the civil war's heaviest bombardments on the central city of Homs on Friday, pounding opposition-held areas with artillery and airstrikes for the sixth straight day, activists said to AP....

Opposition leader: We don't know Hito

  National Coalition member, Haitham al-Maleh, told Zaman Alwasl that Ghassan Hito, the current Opposition government will be replaced by another well-known figure of the opposition as well as we have thousands of diplomats and political dissidents who are very qualified...

Tayfour: New coalition president this evening

  Deputy General Observer of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria told Zaman Alwasl that no discussions had taken place in the ongoing Istanbul meeting about attending Geneva 2.   Mohamed Tayfour, the prominent opposition figure, said we hope to find consensus president...

Assad praises military coup of Egypt

Syria's embattled president on Wednesday praised Egypt's protests against their leader and said his overthrow by the military means the end of "political Islam." President Bashar Assad, who is seeking to crush a revolt against his own rule, said Egyptians have discovered the "lies" of the...

Bloody Offensive on Homs to be continued, day 6

National Coalition renewed the pleas to the international community to take action to protect civilians in the embattled city of Homs. The Syrian National Coalition on Friday appealed to the United Nations and Western countries that have supported the opposition in Syria's civil...

Syria opposition urges world to save Homs

Syrian National Coalition appeals to UN and West to protect civilians in rebel-held areas being shelled by Assad forces. Syria's main opposition bloc has urged the international community to take action to protect civilians in the embattled city of Homs. The Syrian National...

Russia blocks UN appeal on access to Homs

Russia on Thursday blocked a UN Security Council demand that Syria allow immediate access to thousands of civilians trapped by a government offensive on the city of Homs, diplomats said. Diplomats said Russia’s opposition to the statement proposed by council members Australia and...

Assad: Threat of foreign intervention is far-off

 Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Thursday that his government had fended off everything his enemies had thrown at him and that the only remaining threat to his rule was a far-off – and improbable – foreign intervention. In comments to the state-run Al-Thawra...

U.S officials urge to topple National Coalition

  U.S. diplomatic sources told Zaman alwasl about an American trend, not yet crystallized to topple the Syrian National Coalition for the revolutionary forces and the opposition, ''the alternative new opposition this time might be a military one.   Americans lashed before...