Syrian rebel forces are using Nazi-era artillery weapons, most likely looted from the stocks of President Bashar al-Assad’s army. In a video posted online this week, fighters from the armed opposition group Ahrar al-Sham can be seen loading a dusty howitzer during an attack on Ariha, one...

State-run media mourned Sunday senior commander in Syria regime army, saying he was killed "during his national duty," in Aleppo. Activists say the deputy chairman of the security committee in Aleppo province, Major General Younes Ali Ibrahim, died of his wounds. Early Sunday, another top army...

  The Islamic State group has executed at least 217 people, including civilians, in the nine days since it captured areas in Syria's Homs province including the ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the executions of...

 Hezbollah will not allow a single jihadi to remain on the outskirts of Lebanon's northeastern border town of Arsal, party chief Hasan Nasrallah said Sunday, vowing to push on with the Qalamoun offensive until the frontier with Syria is secure. Ignoring calls by his political rivals to...

The Islamic State group has executed 16 Iraqi traders taking food from the city of Baiji to the government-controlled western city of Haditha, officials said Sunday. "Daesh executed 16 Haditha traders last night," the mayor of the city, Abdelhakim al-Jughaifi, told AFP by phone. "The victims...

The Syrian air force on Sunday extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas in Syria, conducting a series of airstrikes on Aleppo, Daraa and Hama that killed 15 people, activists said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 6 victims including a woman and a child...

Syrian army commander came under attack by Ahrar al-Sham Sunday, when an explosive device was detonated near his car in al-Diwaniyah neighborhood of Damascus, killing him and 7 of his escorts, the Islamist group said in statement. Ahrar al-Sham said Brigadier General, Bassam Mehanna al-Ali, and...

OPEC is unlikely to change its production ceiling when the group meets in June, Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said Sunday, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency. "Lowering OPEC's production ceiling requires consensus between all members ... under current conditions it seems...

ISIS seized the Iraqi side of a key border crossing with Syria after isolated government forces pulled out, a police officer and a provincial official said. "Daesh [ISIS] early this morning took control of the Al-Walid post on the border between Iraq and Syria after the withdrawal of...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Many Syrians on Wednesday broke into the Syrian Consulate in Istanbul which forced the Turkish police to intervene and get them outside. A source works inside the Syrian consulate explained to Zaman al-Wasl that people broke into the consulate after a young...

A number of Syrian opposition factions will gather in Cairo next month to form a new coalition as an alternative to an exiled West-backed alliance, officials said Saturday. More than 200 figures from the armed and civilian opposition factions are to attend the June 8-9 gathering and discuss a...

(NOW)- Attention has already been drawn in previous leaks to international journalists who were in contact with Bashar al-Assad’s media aides. Many of these reporters were simply requesting interviews with the president, after obtaining the relevant email addresses through third-party...

(NOW)- The Army of Conquest rebel coalition in northwest Syria has continued to advance against regime troops desperately defending a collapsing salient of territory in the Idlib province. Following a nearly month-long siege, the insurgents stormed into the Jisr al-Shughur National...

Saudi Arabia's top Sunni cleric on Saturday branded a deadly attack on Shiite Muslims a bid to sow chaos, after villagers targeted in the bombing vented their anger at what they saw as the Sunni-dominated government's indifference to their safety. Thousands of protesters took to the streets...

 The commander of international forces in Afghanistan says ISIS is actively recruiting in Afghanistan but is not yet operational there. General John F. Campbell said on Saturday the group's sophisticated social media campaign is attracting Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan...

At least 15 people, including 8 children, were killed on Saturday in barrel bomb attacks on al-Hamidiyya neighborhood in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, activists said. 8 children, mostly brothers, and a women were among the casualties of the Syrian regime airstrikes on the rebel-held...

Ousted Islamist president Mohammad Morsi along with several secular figures behind Egypt's 2011 uprising go on trial Saturday, as the authorities press on with a crackdown on all forms of opposition. The trial for "insulting the judiciary" is the fifth for Morsi, who was sentenced to...

A convoy of Shiite Muslim militia and Iraqi army forces set out from a base near Ramadi on Saturday toward areas held by ISIS, an eyewitness and a local official said. Pro-government forces are seeking to retake the capital of the sprawling western province of Anbar after ISIS overran it last...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hoda, a-23- year-old woman from Baba Amr neighborhood in the central city Homs told Zaman al-Wasl about her two-month torture memos in detention where she lost her pregnancy due to systematic torture by Syrian security. “I am Hoda” she introduced...

A Moroccan man supplied arms for a March attack on Tunisia's Bardo Museum and then boarded a migrant boat for Italy, where he is now held, a Tunisian government official said on Friday. Tunisian authorities have not yet formally notified Italian prosecutors, who arrested 22-year-old Abdelmajid...