The Associated Press has severed ties with a freelance photographer who it says violated its ethical standards by altering a photo he took while covering the war in Syria in 2013. The news service said Wednesday that Narciso Contreras recently told its editors that he manipulated a...

Here's a list of key fighting groups inside Syria: — SYRIAN GOVERNMENT — Despite major defections early in the conflict and the loss of significant territory to rebels, the Syrian military remains a potent force against an outgunned opposition. President Bashar Assad's inner circle...

Head of legal committee in key Syrian opposition said that the National Coalition have filed a lawsuit against Syrian regime president Bashar al-Assad to The International Criminal Court in The Hague. Mr. Haytham al-Maleh said to Zaman Alwasl the report which has been...

  Fierce clashes are taking place in northern Aleppo between rebels and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local source say to Zaman Alwasl. ISIL has seized village of Handarat near Azaz, sources said. Since 72 hours Islamist rebels have engaed in violent...