The opposition Syrian National Coalition  has blamed dozens of bodies  near Otaiba on the Syrian military and Hezbollah, condemning “the cowardly act of killing civilians who tried to escape the siege imposed by the Assad regime”. The Coalition statement called on the...

Talks between NATO and  Russia  on a possible joint mission to protect a U.S. ship that will destroy Syria's deadliest chemical weapons are moving ahead despite tensions over Ukraine , a top U.S. commander said on Thursday. U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove,...

Turkey has reopened the Bab al-Hawa border crossing after clashes inside a refugee camp earlier this month, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. The insurgent bloc Islamic Front had tried to move refugees to nearby camps because of Turkish objections to gunmen at the Bab al-Hawa...

A chemicals weapons attack in Syria last summer that the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people was the world's worst human rights violation of 2013, the Obama administration concluded Thursday. The report by the State Department also foreshadowed the unrest that has gripped the...