Syria's western-backed political opposition, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, reelected Khaled Khoja for a second term as its president, the body said in a statement. The Coalition, accused of slipping into virtual irrelevance on the battlefield as Islamist...

Syrian regime airstrikes killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens across Syria on Wednesday, a monitoring group reported. The dead included 8 children and a woman in attacks on Idlib and Deir Ezzor provinces, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said. Syrian army jets targeted the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) More than 30,000 acres of natural forest have been destroyed in the western countryside of Homs province last Friday when a large fire broke out, eye-witnesses told Zaman al-Wasl. Eyewitnesses said in early hours of Friday a large fire had broken out in the...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday took two checkpoints in Zabadani city after fierce clashes with Syrian regime army and its allied Shiite militia Hezbollah, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Anas al-Qalamouni said rebels had seized control of al-Moura and al-Karazat checkpoints as well...