Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Akaidi confessed of the difficulty of Kobani’s battle as the Islamic State ISIS controling most of it. He wishes that Kobani’s battle would...
By Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed AL HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many cases of congenital deformity were recorded, and happened at monthly bases in al-Hasakah province in Eastern North of Syria, medical source confirmed told Zaman...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Founder of the Free Syrian Army, Riad Al Asaad, disclosed that many rebel factions fought with Nusra Front to expel Syria Revolutionaries' Front from Idlib province in response to the amounting abuses of the ‘corrupted group,’ according to...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria agreed to allow people of the stricken tribe of Sheitat returning to their villages in Deir Ezzor province after months of displacement, local source told Zaman al-Wasl. The...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 students were killed and 20 others were wounded on Wednesday when Syrian regime’s mortar bombs pounded their school in al-Qaboun district in Damascus, activists and monitoring group said. Normal 0...
(Reuters) - The number of asylum seekers arriving in Sweden may reach its highest in two decades because of people fleeing Syria and Iraq, whose arrival could push immigration costs close to 1 percent of GDP in a country where tension over new arrivals is rising. The Migration...
(Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused Syrian forces of committing massacres in and around Aleppo and said Turkey would face a major new refugee crisis if Syria's second city were to fall into their hands. As U.S. warplanes bomb Islamic State forces in...
BEIRUT (The Daily Star): Nusrt Front has warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah of “hidden surprises,” saying the real battle is yet to begin. “Nusra Front in Qalamoun has hidden surprises for the Iranian party [Hezbollah] and the real battle has not yet started,” the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Opposition’s National Coalition to cooperate with German association specialized in international conflicts to get consultancy regarding its political process in the future. Coalition has invited its members to attend the...
Haj pilgrims from Syria have refused to return home after completing the pilgrimage citing the ongoing political unrest and have appealed for asylum in the Kingdom. With the deadline for leaving the Kingdom having expired, about 1,200 Syrian pilgrims approached the Haj Ministry to...
France's foreign minister has called for the US-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to help rebels in Syria's second city Aleppo hold out against the Damascus regime. Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that the coalition should not battle...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Syria forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and beat them with cables during six months of captivity, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The Sunni Muslim militants abducted a group...
(Al Jazeera)- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has declared "victory" for his movement against self-declared jihadists in Syria as tens of thousands of Shia Muslims gathered in Beirut to commemorate Ashura. The Shia armed group has sent thousands of fighters into neighbouring...
The U.S. State Department plans to cut its entire $500,000 in annual funding next year to an organization dedicated to sneaking into abandoned Syrian military bases, prisons, and government facilities to collect documents and other evidence linking Syrian President Bashar...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- 74 bodies of detainees tortured to death by Syrian security forces have been delivered to their families in the eastern towns of Homs province in four days as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is rapidly controling swathes of territory in...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A boat carrying suspected migrants from Afghanistan and Syria sank Monday off Istanbul's coast, leaving at least 24 people dead, the city's governor's office said. About a dozen people were believed to be missing, while six were rescued. Coast guard vessels,...
(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and moderate Syrian rebels bombarded Islamic State positions in Kobani on Monday, but it was unclear if their arrival would turn the tide in the battle for the besieged Syrian border town. Kobani has become a symbolic test of the...
(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters in Syria said on Monday they had taken control of a gas field in the central province of Homs, the second gas field seized in a week after battles with government forces. The hardline Sunni Islamist group posted 18 photos on social media...
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(Reuters) - The Syrian Nusra Front has offered to free Lebanese soldiers it has captured in exchange for Islamist prisoners held in Syria and Lebanon, the SITE Intelligence Group reported on Sunday. The al Qaeda-linked front said in a statement monitored by SITE that it had...
