Bill Clinton told Sen. John McCain he agrees that President Barack Obama should act more forcefully to support anti-Assad rebels in Syria, saying the American public elects presidents and members of Congress “to see down the road” and “to win '', according a report on the Politico website....

More must be done to stop the "outrageous" loss of life in Syria, William Hague has said after talks with his US counterpart in Washington. Diplomatic efforts would be intensified amid reports that the Syrian government was planning "new assaults" on rebel groups, the UK Foreign Secretary...

The United States on Wednesday condemned a cross-border Syrian helicopter gunship attack on an eastern Lebanese town, calling it an "unacceptable provocation which risked dragging Lebanon into war. "The United States condemns in the strongest terms today's helicopter attack by the Syrian...

 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from  Syria 's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and  Israel  in the disputed  Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable  U.N.  peacekeeping force there by more...

  The tragedy as following; ''Your son has been arrested and tortured until death, and then they asked you in cold blood to take his body from the hospital. Oh how lucky am I? at least I know where I can bury him. The broken-hearted mother said about Hussam Khayat, 23...

Assad's forces didn't achieve any progress in the northern Aleppo, according to a leader in the Free Syrian Army, FSA, especially on the fronts of Kvr-Hamra and Marrat al-Arteeq in the countryside of Aleppo. ''Fierce clashes still going on through two axes, without any progress...

  ''we had attacked the Shabiha of Hatla village  who are supporting the Assad regime as they did days ago by killing 4 fighters of al-Qadisyya Brigade.'' FSA source to Zaman Alwasl said.   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least...

A rebel armed group calling itself "As-Sadiq Al Ameen" has committed what appears to be a massacre against Shia civilians in Deir Ezzor.  According to  a video that emerged  on Tuesday, the group targetted the civilians because they are Shia. Residents say the group...

  Chiefs of Staff of the Supreme Military Council has announced Its 15 representatives in the National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces. In a statement released today by the office of General Salim Idriss, the commander of Supreme Military Council gave the...

France and Saudi Arabia agreed during a meeting in Paris that the Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops, which defeated the rebels in the strategic town of Qusayr, should not be allowed to repeat the same scenario in province of Aleppo, Al Arabiya correspondent reported Tuesday. The two countries...

Well-informed source to "Zaman Alwasl" said that dozens of wounded Syrians in Berlin couldn't come back or complete their treatments .   The source said that the German Foreign Ministry was brought them to Berlin from Jordan for medical care but now let them...

After Three months of fierce clashes to get control of 'al-Eskan' camp eastern Idle- 3km- The free Syrian Army announced controlling parts of the camp according to field source to Zaman Alwasl after the earlier declaration that the battle of liberation al-Eskan had begun.  ...

  "Zaman Alwasl" reporter in Istanbul Lma Shammas was interviewed on Tuesday by Alarabiya Satellite Channel where she spoke about the death threat by Nazir Hakim, National Coalition member and prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood movement , who accused Shammas  of spying...

 Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year and a half after U.S. troops pulled out. Iraqi border posts along the Syrian frontier are coming under attack, and Syrian...

The National Mall was filled with a grisly but starkly beautiful reminder that atrocities are happening around the world. Visitors to Washington, D.C. this weekend saw a National Mall transformed into a mass grave. It took more than 1,000 volunteers, clad all in white, more than four...

  Aleppo's Sharia Council also issues a "fatwa" forbidding the killing of anyone accused of blasphemy without referring them to specialists. The Council condemns the killing of a 14-year-old boy for blasphemy after a statement delivered by  of Jabhat al-Nusra said, ''We...

    The activists and civil society in Aleppo have organized a protest   in front of Sharia Council headquarter, demanding justice for a 14-year-old boy, allegedly by al-Qaeda-linked fighters who accused him of blasphemy.. In response to the increasing condemns,...

A total of 24 Ukrainians and four Syrians will be evacuated from Syria to Ukraine on Tuesday, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Yevhen Perebyinis told a briefing. "In the context of ensuring the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens from Syria, 24 citizens of Ukraine and four Syrians –...

  Nick Griffin , the leader of the British National Party, has waded into controversy about the Syrian crisis by paying a "fact-finding visit" to Damascus as part of a delegation of far-right and nationalist European politicians. Griffin, the MEP for North-west England, used his...

 Damascus: Hussam Al-Khayat was martyred due to torture in the Air-force Intelligence branch in Damascus.   A 23 year old architecture student, his mother could not recognize his body or his face. He was martyred after   after 10 days of arrest...