(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel-held areas of the central province of Homs have been under fierce aerial and ground shelling for the sixth day, activists said Wednesday as 11 people have been killed in the recent 48 hours. Early Wednesday, Syrian regime warplanes carried out four air strikes on...

(Bloomberg- Josh Rogin)- Early this year, a former top White House official secretly went to Damascus and met with leaders of the Syrian regime. The visit is part of a broader effort by the Syrian government to reach out to Washington’s power brokers and gain influence. The former...

The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body on a Turkish beach became a symbol of the refugee crisis, has made a Christmas appeal to the world to open its doors to Syrians fleeing conflict. The message, to be broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 on Christmas Day, comes after...

Russia's bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that the air raids had violated humanitarian law. "Russian air strikes in Syria have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people, including a child, have been killed late on Tuesday in a sarin gas attack on the besieged Moadamiyet al-Sham town west of the capital, activists said. The town's main hospital said 10 people were killed including a 12-year-old boy due to targeting their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have executed a swindler in Damascus suburbs after a tragic crime he committed against his 3-year-old boy weeks ago, activists said Tuesday. Liwa al Ghorabaa brigade active in al-Tall town, about 10 miles ( 14 km) north of Damascus, have executed Imad Muhsin, a...

A senior Bavarian politician said on Tuesday that refugees with forged Syrian passports have disappeared in Germany and there are grounds for suspicion that they may have had contact with Islamic State militants, German media reported. The minister spoke after top-selling daily...

Syria's foreign minister will visit China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, amid a renewed bid by Beijing to play a more active role in finding an end to conflict in the Middle East. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem will be in China from Dec. 23 to Dec. 26 and...

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in one of his rare public appearances, attended the Muslim celebration of Mawlid marking the Prophet Mohammed's birthday in a Damascus mosque Tuesday, state media reported. The ceremony, broadcast on state television, was held in Al-Akram mosque in the capital's...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Jordanian authorities on Monday arrested Elaph Qaddah, a Syrian journalist who fled the Syrian regime's crackdown four years ago, sources told Zaman Al Wasl. Qaddah who was born in southern Daraa province is facing the threat of extradition to Syria since he is on the...

(Zaman AL Wals)- Russian air strikes on an Eastern Ghouta suburb near Damascus have killed at least 30 people, the Revolution Local Committees said Tuesday.    The local monitoring group said at least 30 civilians have been killed and dozens wounded in vacuum missile attacks on...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu has slammed Russia for bombing moderate rebels and civilians in Syria, arguing that Moscow's aerial campaign has boosted ISIS. Davutoglu told members of his ruling Justice and Development party that Russia has mostly been "targeting moderate opposition...

Turkish police on Tuesday fired tear gas cannisters and used water cannon to disperse thousands of people protesting in the southeast against the military crackdown on Kurdish rebels, an AFP photographer said. The protesters sought to march on the Sur neighbourhood of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday have taken a border town with Turkey in northern Aleppo province from the Islamic State fighters, according to  Zaman al Wasl's  local reporter. The rebel factions operating under Marea Command Room said they have seized full control...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The radical Islamic State group claimed Tuesday it had shot down two Syrian regime warplanes in the mountainous Qalamoun region near Damascus, according to the group's news agency. No more information has been disclosed by ISIS' official news agency...

 Iraq's foreign minister denied Tuesday that his government had anything to do with the kidnapping of a group of Qatari hunters in the south of the country this month. A large group of unidentified armed men abducted at least 26 Qataris from their desert hunting camp near the Saudi...

The next round of talks aimed at easing the violence in war-torn Syria will be held at the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva early next year, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday. "The talks will take place in Geneva, but we don't have the exact date," U.N. spokesman Rheal LeBlanc told AFP....

ISIS militants shelled a school district in eastern Syria Tuesday, killing at least nine students and wounding around 20 other people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Syrian state media said nine girls had been killed and said "shells fired by terrorists" had hit...

Turkish police killed two female "terrorists" in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday on a cell of suspected militants in Istanbul, media reports said. The Dogan news agency said the clash, which also left four police lightly wounded, took place in the Gaziosmanpasa district in the north of the European...

The number of refugees and migrants arriving by land and sea in the European Union has passed 1 million this year, while a further 3,600 died or went missing, the U.N. refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. Half of those arriving were Syrians fleeing...