(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Coalition member warned West-backed group of the ongoing meeting of the main Syrian opposition factions in Cairo, saying there is plan to open all the roads needed for the rehabilitation of the ‘Butcher of Syria’ again after all the crimes committed against the...

(Reuters) - U.S.-led forces attacked Islamic State targets with 21 air strikes in Iraq and 10 in Syria since Wednesday, the American military said. Sixteen of the air strikes in Iraq were centered around Mosul, where they hit tactical units, vehicles, bridges, artillery systems...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent activist and former member of the National Coalition, has rebuked the key opposition group over irresponsible promises to renew expired passport, saying Coalition...

Cairo,  Asharq Al-Awsat —Representatives of the main Syrian opposition factions will be meeting in Cairo between Thursday and Saturday in an attempt to agree on common positions ahead of talks on the Syria conflict in Moscow set to begin later this month. The Egyptian Council for...

Kokkinotrimithia (Cyprus) (AFP) - It costs thousands of euros for a false passport and place on a boat to Turkey, but Syrian refugees stranded in Cyprus are ready to try anything. After already paying thousands last year to take a boat from Syria that was abandoned by smugglers at...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs, in statement issued on Wednesday, insisted on the planned truce with Syrian regime to open a humanitarian corridor to the Town of Erbin, accusing the Nusra Front of hindering the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday killed at least 12 civilians , including two women and one child, near al-Hola town in the northwest of Homs city, activists said. The air force carried out four air strikes on the villages of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad forces on Wednesday held captive by rebels in Handarat district of Aleppo, activists say . Ibrahim al-Khatib, media activist, said ‘Failaq al-Sham’ rebel group have arrested four fighters,...

  (AFP)- A car bomb on a shopping street in Syria's government-controlled third city of Homs killed seven people and wounded 30 on Wednesday, the provincial governor told AFP. It was the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting the Akrameh...

Tokyo (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was rushing home from the Middle East Wednesday to take charge of Tokyo's response to Islamic militants threatening to kill two nationals unless he pays a $200 million ransom. A defiant Abe vowed he would not bow to "terrorism", as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Egyptian authorities have refused to grant Syria's  opposition vice president a visa as he plans to hold talks with Syrian opponents in Cairo. Hisham Marwa, head deputy of Syrian National Coalition has yet to get a visa to...

Paris (AFP) - A group of pro-Syrian regime hackers briefly took over the Twitter account of France's Le Monde newspaper early Wednesday, tweeting several messages including one reading "Je ne suis pas Charlie". The tweet was a negative reference to the "Je Suis Charlie" (I am...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five new-born babies died of Bronchiolitis in Alatarib in Aleppo’s Western countryside, as a result of viral infection. Dr. Abdul Rahman Obaid, Director of Alatarib Hospital told Zaman al-Wasl...

(Reuters) - An Iranian general killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria was not its intended target and Israel believed it was attacking only low-ranking guerrillas, a senior security source said on Tuesday. The remarks by the Israeli source, who declined to be identified because...

(AFP)- Syrian government air strikes Tuesday killed at least 12 civilians in two towns in the northwest of the war-torn country Tuesday, a monitoring group said. "The air force carried out six air strikes against areas of the town of Saraqeb, and another strike targeting... the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of people have been killed in barrel bomb attack on a village in the northern Syrian province of Hasakah, activists said on Tuesday. Activist Seraj al-Haskawi said at least 60 people have been killed and 100 others wounded when...

Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless it receives a $200 million ransom within 72 hours, but Tokyo vowed Tuesday it would not give in to "terrorism". IS has murdered five Western hostages since August last year, but it is...

The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays a $200 million ransom within 72 hours, in a video posted on jihadist websites on Tuesday. In the footage, a black-clad militant brandishing a knife addresses the camera in English, standing between...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge demonstration gathered on Sunday in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus, to protest against the starving policy the Syrian regime practices against people by closing all crossing...

(Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers stationed in the Golan Heights along the Syrian-Israeli border observed drones coming from the Israeli side before and after an airstrike that killed top several Hezbollah figures, the United Nations said on Monday. The flight of the drones in...