(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front said in statement issued on Thursday that efforts to solve discords with West-backed Hazm movement reached a dead-end, what looms to an imminent clash, activists said. The statement assured that the second powerful Islamist...

  (Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- Zaman al-Wasl visited Nour al-Din al-Zinki rebel group in al-Mansoura fighting front in the western countryside of Aleppo this week. Syrian regime checkpoints on the touchline appeared with black banners as camouflage. Mansoura front...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels on Wednesday stormed bases of two factions affiliated to the Islamic State extremist group in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, killing its commanders and arresting 50 militants, commander said....

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces Wednesday have opened Babbila crossing after 45 days of sever siege and under pressure of rebels who threatened to end the cease-fire truce if the siege would be continued on the southern suburbs of Damascus. Activists reported 11...

(Reuters) - An audio message purportedly from a Japanese journalist being held by Islamic State militants said a Jordanian air force pilot also captured by the group would be killed unless an Iraqi female prisoner in Jordan was released by sunset on Thursday. The message...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded in a rebel-held town of Daraa province Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, activists said. The blast in Muzayrib town came two days after the humiliating defeat of Syrian regime forces in...

(Reuters) - Syria said on Wednesday it has approved a United Nations plan to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in the war-torn country this year, but warned the only way to the end the crisis was to help Damascus fight terrorism. The strategic response plan...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday killed 5 people, 2 children and 3 women, in the rebel-held city of Douma near Damascus, according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Activists said Bashar al-Assad’s helicopters have...

(Al Arabiya News)- In his latest interview, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “voiced untruths with confidence,” the editor who spoke to him told NPR on Wednesday, while likening him to Hitler. Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman revealed his thoughts about Assad during...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Wide differences and disagreement within the opposition’s delegation team for Moscow’s meeting appeared till even hours before the talks start, as they were not able to identify the...

(Reuters)- Jordan said Wednesday it was willing to hand over an Iraqi woman detained for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing in Amman if a Jordanian pilot captured by ISIS was released. "Jordan is ready to release prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi if the Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kasaesbeh...

(Todays Zaman)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ruled out any possibility of accepting an autonomous Kurdish government in northern Syria similar to the one in northern Iraq, saying a government like this would cause major problems in the future. In his remarks...

(Reuters) - Kurdish fighters' expulsion of Islamic State forces from the Syrian town of Kobani helped stop the momentum of the Islamist group but is not a significant turning point in the overall campaign, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The setback for...

By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rihab Allawi, an enthusiastic string revolutionary young lady, worked for the Syrian revolution since start, but her life ended in regime’s prisons in Feburary 2013 and was buried in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 people have been killed by Syrian regime due to the heavy artillery shelling on Talbiseh town in the northwest of Homs city, activists said on Tuesday. Activists say more than 30 people have been killed due the aerial...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Coalition’s Embassy in Doha has announced officially launching the process of renewing expired Syrian passports starting 29th January 2015, restricted to Syrians in Qatar only as a first step. The Embassy...

(Reuters) - At least two rockets from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday and Israel returned fire, the military said, nine days after an Israeli air strike in Syria killed an Iranian general and several Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. An Israeli military...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Turkish authorities have closed the country’s southeastern Cilvegozu border crossing for exit and entry due to security concerns following random gun fire from Syria's nearby Bab al-Hawa border crossing. Gunfire was heard at around...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Commander of Islam Army, in a press conference held in Douma city, vowed Syrian regime by more surprises , a day after targeting the capital by 100 rockets and killing 15 people. Zaharan Alloush, the commander of the...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of Iraqi men, have arrived Hasakah city across borders, after Kurdish armed groups attacked their villages, and abducted their women and children, activists said on...