A former Lebanese prisoner of Israel freed in a 2008 swap deal with Hezbollah has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria, the party's Al-Manar television reported early Sunday. Al-Manar said in its morning broadcast that Samir Kuntar was killed in an Israeli airstrike...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Islamist factions have recaptured territory from regime army and allied militia in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists said Tuesday. The recent gain came after Rebels had formed a new military operations room in the embattled suburbs included Islam Army, Ajnad al-Sham,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has posted online photos for what it said corpses of 80 Syrian regime soldiers and allied militants who had been killed in the recent clashes in the southern countryside of Aleppo province. The powerful jihadi group that controls...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopter gunships have struck a suburb of the capital, Damascus, a day after airstrikes on nearby areas killed at least 70 people.  Two activist groups - the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees -...