The military spokesman of South Storm battle in Daraa province said a homemade missile has destroyed the military operations room of Syrian forces in the Old City of Daraa, the Syrian Media Commission reported on Monday. The spokesman (Dubbed: Abu Qusai) said fighters of the South Storm...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to continue political, economic and military support Syria as he called on all Middle East nations to join forces against ISIS. Putin called on all nations to 'pool their efforts together' to fight Islamic militants, regardless of their relations...

Three Islamic State group car bombs killed 12 Syrian troops and militiamen in the northeastern city of Hasakeh where the extremists have taken two districts, AFP reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 30 civilians have been killed in the clashes, with an increase in...

  Dozens of fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Syrian government forces have been killed in ongoing battles in Hasakah province, a monitoring group and activists said. The fighting has displaced more than 100,000 people, the UN said. At least nine ISIL...

Egypt's top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary. Judges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radical...

The wife of a prominent Palestinian detainee says he has agreed to end a 55-day hunger strike and in exchange will be released by Israel. Rights groups have warned in recent days that Khader Adnan is near death. Randa Adnan visited her husband in an Israeli hospital over the weekend and...

ISIS released an audio clip purporting to be a posthumous statement by a militant who killed 27 people in a suicide bombing attack on a Kuwait mosque Friday. The statement consisted largely of Koranic verses and was released on social media channels used by ISIS. The speaker criticizes...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Official diplomatic documents revealed that a prominent intelligence figure in Syria requested from Lebanese well known figures to prepare for destructive acts in Lebanon to unstable the country and increase the disorder among people.  Two documents...

Israeli naval forces boarded and took over an activist vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade, and were escorting it to an Israeli port early Monday, the military said, saying that the navy did not use force. "In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel...

Umm Atef al-Darkouni sat in the corner of a hall in Sidon, in one of the complexes that hosts displaced Syrians. Ramadan brings back precious memories of better times for many refugees, and she reminisced about how things used to be in her home town of Qusair, before she was forced to flee....

(Soufyan Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The battle of “South Storm” started 4 days ago by Daraa’s rebels to liberate their city from the regime forces. They have formed a central operation room with 7 sections, like emergency, medical, media, information and coordination section.  ...

Mohammad Nasif Khayrbik, a senior Syrian government security official close to President Bashar al-Assad, died Sunday morning after a long illness, state media said. Khayrbik was a key confidante of the Assad family and the target of EU and U.S. sanctions for his alleged role in putting down...

A rebel mortar attack killed four civilians on Sunday in the Syrian capital as government forces battled Islamic State group jihadists in the northern city of Hasakeh, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a mortar round struck Revolution Street in central Damascus,...

Greece will introduce capital controls and keep its banks closed on Monday after international creditors refused to extend the country's bailout and savers queued to withdraw cash, taking Athens' standoff to a dangerous new level. The Athens stock exchange will also be closed as the...

(Reuters)-   The latest series of WikiLeaks cables have once again embarrassed the Saudi government and forced it on to the diplomatic defensive. The cables, over half a million documents said to have come from the Saudi Foreign Ministry, contain titillating details about how Riyadh...

President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Saturday as saying Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state embracing its south-east and parts of northern Syria, comments likely to anger Kurds as a peace process with Ankara stalls. Turkey has looked askance as Syrian Kurds have made...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A secret telegraph issued by the Saudi intelligence revealed that a son of a prominent commander in Hezbollah had got involved in selling arms to officers defected from the Syrian regime. The document was published by WikiLeaks among thousands of Saudi...

A well-informed source said no one of the commanders of the Southern Front and Nusra Front have been killed in the regime airstrike on their meeting in Garz town in the southern province of Daraa on Saturday. The meeting of Southern Front and Syria's al-Qaeda wing, the Nusra Front, was to...

Syrian regime barrel bomb attacks on northern city of Aleppo have killed 7 people, including four children and two women, activists and local reporter said Saturday. The barrel bomb attack on al-Halk neighborhood in rebel-held Aleppo killed 7 civilians, including four children and two women,...

Syrian Opposition's Interim Government seeks to develop its media office by contracting with a professional corporation, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Since the Syrian revolution erupted in March 2011, opposition media s has never fulfilled the desired aspirations, activists said, what reflect...