Syrian state media dismissed as "not accurate" a report by news agency Interfax that President Bashar al-Assad told visiting Russian parliamentarians he has no intention of giving up power and the issue is not up for discussion. Assad was quoted as telling the visitors days ahead of...

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Rebel Free Syrian Army shelled sites of the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) in western countryside of Aleppo by mortar bombs, sources told Zaman Alwasl. FSA's Division 9 is looking to expel al-Qaeda group from Kafr Joom village in step to expel al-Qaeda,...

Major Islamist groups are endorsing political solution for the Syrian crisis, Zaman Alwasl sources say.  The powerful Islamic Front, Syria revolutionaries and Jund al Islam have agreed on a political solution, “that did not mean their approval to go to the planned...