(Zaman Al Wasl)- A powerful Syrian insurgent group said on Thursday it was studying a local ceasefire proposal tabled by an international mediator aimed at halting fighting near Damascus. Islam Alloush, spokesman for the Jaish al-Islam group, or Islam Army,  told Reuters the ceasefire...

n">The mobile messaging service Telegram, created by the exiled founder of Russia’s most popular social network site, has emerged as an important new promotional and recruitment platform for Islamic State. The service, set up two years ago, has caught on in many corners of...

  Facebook Inc said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militant group. Anchalee, a software developer in...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Xinhua)- The ceasefire negotiations, which have been taking place to achieve a 15-day truce east of the capital Damascus, have failed, a monitor group reported Thursday. The Syrian government forces and an array of rebel groups in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus have...