With the Ukraine crisis, any fleeting hope that the U.S. and Russia could soon broker a political settlement in Syria has vanished. The United States needs an alternate strategy for strengthening Syrian moderates who can resist both the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime and al-Qaeda...

At least three people were killed and six wounded when a suicide car bomber struck a petrol station in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley near the border with  Syria , a security source said. He said two of the dead were members of Hezbollah who had approached the vehicle in the town of...

Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah militants took full control of the town of Yabroud on Sunday after driving out rebels, helping President Bashar al-Assad secure the land route linking the capital Damascus to Aleppo and the Mediterranean coast. The fall of Yabroud, the last...

Many wonder about ways of support, the Assistance Coordination Unit “ACU”, run by the coalition, provide to Qalamoun in these crucial period of heavy fight with regime. In a reply to such query, Dr. Osama Kadi, the Executive Director of the ACU said to Zaman Alwasl: “we managed to...