A supertanker suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions was detained in Gibraltar Thursday, the territory's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said. The Grace 1 vessel was halted in the early hours of Thursday by Gibraltar police and customs agencies, aided by a...

The travails of three women, 38-year-old Refeyda Zeytun, her sister and mother began at a hospital in Haresta region in the Syrian capital of Damascus, after her mother was injured in an airstrike.  Instead of treating them, they were arrested by Syrian regime forces, on suspicion that...

Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday called on the West to avoid double standards in fighting terrorism in Syria.  Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov said the U.S. was trying to use the "Kurdish factor" to undermine Syrian sovereignty. "The U.S. is trying to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source told Zaman al-Wasl that Israel's Monday-dawn airstrikes had succeeded to hit powerful Syrian defense systems, revealing the location of most of it. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the first strikes hit the 91th Brigade, affiliated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Avaaz, global civic movement, launched in support of a Syrian refugee who has been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison and a fine of more than 3 million Euros on charges of "trafficking". The petition by is the U.S.-based activism tribune called on to "Save...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army  on July 1st   has promoted   11 Brigadier Generals who gained fame in brutality and killing, each in his field. Zaman al-Wasl has obtained the names of the promoted Major Generals, who mostly come from Bashar al-Assad's...

Two hundred corpses, including those of people believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS) group, were found near the Syrian city of Raqqa, a local official and an activist group said. The mass grave contained the bodies of five men in orange jumpsuits of the kind typically worn by Daesh...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A local delegation representing the Reconciliation committees in western Damascus suburbs held a meeting last week with Bashar al-Assad’s security adviser and the head of the National Security Bureau, seeking to uncover the fate of detainees and to implement the promises...

A Syrian woman formerly jailed by the Bashar al-Assad regime cannot forget the memories of the torture dungeons. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Um Muhammed, 55, who was paralyzed by a regime air raid, recalls the inhumane torture methods and cruelties she witnessed during her...

Prisoners are suffering different types of brutal torture that the human mind cannot imagine at the Syrian regime dungeons, according to former detainees.  In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Muhammed Abdullah said he was arrested for participating in pro-democracy protests...

Syria's regime on Tuesday accused Israel of committing "state terrorism" after reported Israeli airstrikes killed 15 people including civilians. "Israeli authorities are increasingly practicing state terrorism," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official SANA news...

 Zaman al-Wasl obtained satellite images and video footage of a cemetery holds 500 pro-Shiite fighters inside the Assad Military Academy in Aleppo province. A well-informed source confirmed that most of the slain fighters were from the Shiite villages of Nubl and al-Zahraa in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 regime forces were killed and wounded on Sunday when ISIS (Daesh) attacked their military convoy in the Syrian desert, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Abdul Aziz al-Naser said the regime forces had engaged in heavy clashes with Daesh following the...

Syrians families living in Turkey are continuing to return to their hometowns liberated from terrorists in northwestern Syria. Taking refuge in Turkey due to civil war in Syria, Syrians are using the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province to go to terror-free areas of...

The Lebanese army started destroying Syrian refugee settlements in northeast Lebanon Monday after the expiry of a government ultimatum, officials said, as aid groups warned of more demolitions in the coming days. Keen not to encourage Syrians to settle permanently, the government had given...

The U.S.-led coalition said Monday its jets carried out strikes in northwest Syria a day earlier that an activist group reported had killed eight Islamist militants, including commanders, from an Al-Qaeda-linked group. "This operation targeted AQ-S operatives responsible for plotting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many believe that the Syrian revolution has faded, but Syrians who believe in their revolution, their right to live and victory decided to fight their battle against the Assad regime and its allies in a different way.  Brita Hajji Hassan, former Head of Free Aleppo...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fresh satellite images showed that the construction is underway near Damascus to dig a tunnel next to the new palace of Maher al-Assad, Bashar’s brother and the powerful military man. The tunnel construction is under the supervision of North Korean experts,...

  (The Times Of Israel)- An Israeli satellite imagery analysis company on Sunday said Syria’s entire S-300 air defense system appeared to be operational, indicating a greater threat to Israel’s ability to conduct airstrikes against Iranian and pro-Iranian forces in the country....

Israeli warplanes fired missiles at Syria that targeted Syrian military positions in Homs and the Damascus outskirts, Assad regime media reported on Monday, citing a military source. Syrian air defenses confronted the attack, which was launched from Lebanese air space, it said....