A Syrian photojournalist known for his picture of bikers on a badly damaged bridge was killed when an army rocket attack erupted while he was cycling, a colleague said Monday.   Murhaf al-Mohdi, who also went by the pseudonym Abo Shuja, had...

    Well-informed source close to the Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” confirmed to Zaman Alwasl that ISIS will not accept the arbitration in resolving the conflict with the North Storm brigade, due to the lack of commitment with the ceasefire agreement from...

  Six weeks ago, a two-man delegation arrived in secret in Damascus: civilians from Aleppo who represented elements of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel group largely composed of fighters who deserted the regime’s army in the first year of the war. They came under a guarantee of...

This Lowy Institute Analysis examines the trajectory of the Syrian conflict in the wake of the Russian and US agreement to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons.  It argues that while that agreement, enshrined in Security Council Resolution 2118, may remove a pernicious class of weapons...