(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese security arrested Friday a Syrian army defector in a border town with Syria, according to the National News Agency. Pilot Lieutenant Colonel, Hassan Khalid al-Haloush, was arrested in Jdaidet al-Fakiha town and had been referred to the court, the agency said....

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Abu Hamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representatives of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other revolutionary armed formations presented summary with evidence about the connection between the Syrian regime and the Islamic State (ISIS). The press...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed and 6 more wounded in regime air strikes on the northern countryside of central Homs province, activists said Friday. Regime war planes carried out 6 strikes on Rastan city, killing a father and his son, and leaving 6 more people dead, according to...

At least 210 combatants died in a surge in violence around the second city of Aleppo this week, an activist group said Friday. Among those killed from Sunday to Thursday were 82 army troops and pro-government militiamen, 94 members of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front and allied rebel...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed The Syrian regime delegation has arrived Geneva Friday to participate in the third round of indirect talks that officially started two days ago. The U.N. sepcial envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura is due to meet the regime’s and...

Writing by Faris al-Refai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Salma al-Ghazali, was forced one day in 2013 to say good bye to her home town , Khirbet Ghazale, about 12 miles (17 km) northeast Daraa city, when she with her family found no option but to leave the town with hundreds of...

Syrian regime army backed by Russian warplanes launched an assault north of Aleppo on Thursday, threatening to block a vital rebel route into the city in fighting that has cast new clouds over Geneva peace talks. Syria's recent upsurge in fighting, particularly around the...

(Zaman Al Wasl- EQTSAD )- The humanitarian and innovative initiatives vary within the milieu of Syrians in Turkey with the variety of directions, orientations, and issues organizers want to address. We rarely find an initiative that achieves general aims and reaches a segment of society other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regional spokesman of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Jared Kaplan stated to Zaman Al Wasl in a sidelines of the Geneva talks that his country believes the only way to end the bloodshed in Syria is through negotiations under a U.N. supervision. "We expect the negotiations to...

Syria's main opposition group is willing to share membership of a transitional governing body with current members of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, but not with Assad himself, the group's spokesman said in Geneva. "There are many people on the other side who we...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl) - The U.N Envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, met with a delegation of Cairo Platform on Thursday in Geneva after meeting with the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) the day before. Jihad Makdissi, a member of Cairo...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee family reported their daughter Sarah sexual harassment by a Red Cross shelter officer in Hoxter town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. German media outlets said the Syrian family had taken refuge in Germany last year. Their daughter of 7 Sarah was...

A Syrian jet plane was probably shot down on Thursday by Islamic State militants near a military airport in southern Syria but the pilot appears to have been rescued, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had received information that the hardline group...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops exchanged fire with rebels in the contested northern city of Aleppo on Thursday in a renewed bout of fighting that could further mar peace talks underway in Geneva. Government warplanes, helicopter gunships and artillery were bombarding rebel-held parts of...

China on Thursday urged U.N. Security Council members to back a draft resolution demanding states report when militants are developing chemical weapons in Syria. Some diplomats have dismissed the proposed resolution as a bid to distract from accusations the Syrian government uses such weapons....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 1200 soldiers from Iran's regular army have joined the ongoing fighting in northern Aleppo province, ten days after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help Bashar al-Assad, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. At least 12 Iranian C-130 crafts...

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq had put the militant group on the defensive, shrinking its territory and striking key leaders. "We have momentum and we intend to keep that momentum," Obama told reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Parts of northern Hasaka province have been hit with flooding in the past two days, forcing evacuations and causing damage in houses and bridges, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Activists Omar al-Shami said people of Tel al-Shayer, Haddaj and al-Tarraf villages have been...

Syria's parliamentary elections on Wednesday are a "sham" organized by "an oppressive regime," France's foreign ministry said, adding that viable elections could only take place after a political transition and new constitution. "France denounces this sham of an election organized by the...

Macedonian police fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse around 50 migrants stranded in Greece who tried to pull down part of the razor wire fence separating the two countries, a Reuters witness said. Scuffles briefly broke out and Greek riot police later intervened to break up the crowd....