Commanders of Syria's key rebel group Ahrar al-Sham movement have been under fire amid a mounting number of senior fighters killed by unidentified groups. On Saturday, Abu Rateb al-Mazzawi, Ahrar al-Sham's senior commander in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, was killed in an explosive device planted...

Fatah Army early Sunday has resumed bombing on the last two Shiite villages in the northwestern province of Idlib as a temporary ceasefire between warring parties collapsed on Saturday. The alliance of Islamist groups, including dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement, had launched an attack on...

At least 21 people, including 9 children and 6 women, were killed on Saturday when Syrian air force carried out deadly air strikes on rebel-held towns of Wadi Barada region near Damascus, activists and monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 13 civilians, including 4...

Rebels on Saturday have thwarted Syrian army attack on Seif al-Dawla neighborhood in northern city of Aleppo, 15 soldiers were killed, according to rebel commander. Abu al-Waleed said regime army had failed to achieve any progress in Seif al-Dawla neighborhood despite taking number of...

Rebels of the northern countryside of Homs have stormed Tasnin town on Saturday after targeting army checkpoints by grad missiles, activists said. Rebels who announced a new command room including dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front are pushing hard to take...

Islam Army fighters on Saturday have launched a major attack on an army base northeast Damascus, the clashes are still underway, activists say. Rebels seek to capture Idarat al-Morakabat in Harasta city, a move may cut the international road links between Damascus and Homs. Jaysh...

At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said on Saturday. The victims are thought to have suffocated after inhaling fumes from fuel after the boat took on water in the hold, the...

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet on Monday to discuss the Iranian nuclear program and peace efforts in Syria, Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the meeting would take place...

A Syrian rebel group said on Saturday a ceasefire was over between insurgents and the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in a town near the Lebanese border and two villages in the northwest. Ahmed Qara Ali, spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham insurgent group, said rebel groups had...

  At least 1200 of Syrian inmates at a main prison in the city of Hama rioted on Friday in a protest against jail conditions and harsh sentences, a monitor and rights activists said on Friday. The roit came to an end, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources, after...

Arab Bank Plc has agreed to settle litigation brought by hundreds of Americans who accused it of facilitating militant attacks in Israel, nearly a year after a U.S. jury found the bank liable. The settlement was confirmed on Friday by Michael Elsner, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, and a...

(By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fouad Aliko, member of the Political Committee in the Syrian National Coalition for revolutionary Forces and Opposition, a member of the Kurdish national Council, talked to Zaman al-Wasl about the internal differences in the Kurdish...

  (NOW)- A treasure trove of documents leaked from multinational bank HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary have revealed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s powerful cousin Rami Makhlouf was involved in shady business dealings with an Israeli national.   Alaraby Aljadeed on...

ISIS on Friday has recaptured ground from rebels it has lost this week near the Turkish border in the northern countryside of Aleppo, activists said. The moderate Islamist groups had seized al-Kherba village and neighboring farms from ISIS on Thursday, but it took few hours to be recaptured...

A Russian officer has been killed on Thursday in a missile attack carried out by Islam Army on the Syrian coastal city of Latakia that is a bastion of President Bashar al-Assad, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl. The officer was killed in Islam Army's attack on Slinfa resort near Assad's...

The U.S. bombing campaign against Islamic State rebels surged in July as Kurdish fighters pushed into territory held by the militant group in Syria and Iraqi forces prepared an offensive to retake strategic northwestern cities, Pentagon figures showed. The U.S. military spent an average of $4.6...

A ceasefire between the warring sides in a Syrian town and two villages has been extended until Sunday, sources on both sides said on Friday. The ceasefire between rebels on one hand and the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah on the other began on Wednesday. It halted fighting...

The United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. "We have credible...

It may be paradise for tourists, but Syrian refugees on Kos are desperate to leave the island and start new lives further north after waiting in hellish conditions to get registered. "The road ahead is still long for me. I leave tomorrow. First I will go to Macedonia, then...

A U.S. Army general says ISIS is making small inroads in Afghanistan and could grow into a more worrisome threat. Speaking to Pentagon reporters on Friday from his offices in Kabul, Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner said ISIS is not yet capable of coordinating military operations in more than one part...