Syrian President Bashar Assad, two and a half years into a blood-soaked rebellion against his rule, mourned Nelson Mandela's death on Friday, calling his life an inspiration for freedom fighters and a lesson to tyrants. Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died...

Germany says it will take in a further 5,000 refugees from Syria, doubling its current offer of shelter for people fleeing the Arab nation's civil war. The decision was announced Friday at a meeting of officials from Germany's 16 states, which share responsibility for housing...

The checkpoints of Shi’ite Militias have become remarkably widespread in regime-held areas of Aleppo amid decreasing for presence of Assad's forces, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. They wear black costumes with green and red bands, inscribed with sectarian slogans, their...

The founder of Free Syrian Army denounced to Zaman Alwasl the rumors of being kidnapped or pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda affiliates.  ‘’I have not been kidnapped in Turkey as well I have not pledged allegiance to State of Iraq and The Levant,’’ Colonel Riad...