(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's media and activists have mourned on Sunday a top army commander said he had been killed in the ongoing clashes in the northern countryside of central Hama city. Major General Taleb Salameh was the commander of Brigade 47 that active in Homa and Hama...

Afghan refugees are going to fight for Iran in Syria on the offer of being paid a monthly salary and being granted permanent residency   (Middle East Eye)- Iran has recruited thousands of Afghan refugees living in the Islamic Republic to go and fight a religious war in Syria to...

Just two days after resolving a coalition row over how to handle a record influx of refugees, Germany's ruling parties are embroiled in another spat over whether to limit the asylum rights of refugees from Syria. The government was forced to clarify on Friday that its asylum policy for refugees...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Nusra Front has expelled al Bayyadha Battalion, a rebel group of 80 members, from northern Homs province because the latter had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, the Qaeda's Syria wing said in statement. Nusra fighters seized this week the checkpoints of al...

 At least 23 Syrian civilians were killed Saturday in suspected Russian air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus, a monitor said. Elsewhere, the Islamic State group freed 37 Syrian Christians who were among more than 200 people kidnapped in February, an NGO said. The strikes on...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Saturday released 37 Syrian Christians, most of them women, who were among more than 200 people kidnapped more than eight months ago, an NGO said. The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights said the group of freed Assyrian Christians included 27...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A key alliance group north Syria, vowed in statement issued Saturday to revenge to martyred clerics killed Thursday in Lebanese border town of Arsal. Fatah Army, or the Army of Conquest, said the members of Qalamoun Sharia Society are not linked to Al Qaeda's Syria...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian teenage girl was kidnapped early Saturday by a Lebanese man from her refugee camp of in Bekaa Valley, activists said. Ali Abu Sweid, an armed militant, has kidnapped Fatema al Hamad, 14, from Ali Helal refugee camp in Zahle in front of her mother and brother,...

The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday. The move comes after President Barack Obama...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels pressed Friday more advances northeast Hama province, taking control of two villages and strategic hills, activists and local reporter said. Islamist fighters operating under the Army of Conquest banner took Atshan and Um Hartin villages from Syrian regime army...

The U.S. military says it has deployed six F-15C jets to Turkey's southern Incirlik air base to help defend Turkish airspace against potential intruders. The deployment of the air-to-air combat planes, announced Friday, comes after two Russian warplanes active in Syria strayed into...

A Vienna court sentenced a Romanian man to two years in jail Friday for human trafficking after he drove dozens of migrants across Austria in August in a van whose doors had been welded shut. Austrian police rescued 26 migrants from the van, including three young children aged 5 and 6...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abdul Basset al Sarout, an icon of the Syrian revolution and vocal supporter, was wounded with his two comrades in northeastern Homs when Nusra Front fighters opened fire on his car on Wednesday, source said. The source revealed that fighters of Nusra Front and Ahrar al...

(Reuters)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart, Feridun Sinirlioglu, discussed the search for a political solution to the Syrian crisis on the phone, Russia's foreign ministry said on Friday.

Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State insurgents were battling another rebel group, according to a report by an international watchdog seen by Reuters. A confidential Oct. 29 report by the Organisation for the Prohibition...

France will deploy its aircraft carrier to support operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, President Francois Hollande said on Thursday, bolstering Paris' firepower in the region amid international efforts to launch Syrian peace talks. The carrier is usually accompanied by an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has accused Islamic State of carrying out a car bomb targeted an independent religious society made up of Syrian scholars in Arsal town northeast Lebanon Thursday that killed at least nine people, a source with close ties with Nusra...

The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF warned on Wednesday that human smugglers have lowered their rates for refugees who travel to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea as weather conditions worsen in winter. Smugglers made over 50 percent reductions for refugees who have been trying to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took control of strategic hill northeast Hama province late on Thursday after heavy clashes with regime troops and their allied militias, killing at least 50, a rebel commander said. Ajnad al Sham, key rebel unit in the Army of Conquest, and other Islamist...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Death toll of Russian air strikes hit Al Bukamal border town east Syria on Wednesday has risen to 50, Islamic State's news outlets said. 13 children and 4 women were among the victims of Russia's aerial campaign against the ISIS-held town of Al Bukamal town on the Iraqi...