Beirut, Nov 21 (IANS/EFE) It is probably one of the most difficult and expensive-to-produce wines in the world, but its creators, brothers Karim and Sandro Saade, have decided to go on producing Domaine de Bargylus, despite the conflict that has been tearing Syria apart since 2011....

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters attacked a government complex in the heart of Ramadi on Friday, local officials said, part of an apparently coordinated assault to seize full control of the provincial capital west of Baghdad. Gunmen fired...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Opposition's National Coalition holds on Friday its regular meeting to discuss Ahmed Tomen's proposed formation of the new cabinet, source said. The Interim prime minister, who preferred to keep four ministers from the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that "international cooperation" was necessary to crush the Islamic State group, which is the target of a US-led campaign. "The region is going through decisive times" and the most important factor in determining the outcome is...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Fighters from Al Qaeda's Nusra Front and other insurgents attacked and briefly entered Baath City in southern Syria on Thursday, the army's last major bastion in a province flanking the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The battle is...

  (SNHR)- The Syrian Network for human Rights has documented the names, pictures, videos, and place and date of death of no less than 17268 children victims who were killed by government forces since March 2011. Those children were killed by...

Soon after the young woman was released by the Syrian government in a prisoner exchange, activists began noticing the signs. The woman's husband immediately divorced her. She rarely ventured outside her parents' house. Not long after, she left for Turkey. Activist Kareem Saleh, who...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three fighters of the West-backed rebel group, Hazm movement, were killed on Thursday when an IED exploded in their car in Aleppo countryside, activists and monitoring groups said. Thaer Akkoush, the commander of security...

Turkey's widely-admired response to the refugee crisis sparked by the war in neighbouring Syria is now showing its limitations, with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees living in destitution and others being denied entry, Amnesty International warned Thursday. Turkey has...

U.S. airstrikes targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have helped Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, former U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford said during a meeting at the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hamas armed wing in Syria killed dozens of Palestinian militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad last week in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, commander said. The footage, which posted online last week by ‘Aknaf Beit al-Maqdes’...

  (Zaman Al Wasl- Anadolu Agency)- The reports that the Free Syrian Army has left  Aleppo are not true, says Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic, at a press briefing in Ankara on Wednesday. "There is an ongoing battle between...

Last March 11, was a normal Thursday morning for the Ali Mehenni family, or so Kamel Ali Mehenni thought when he dropped off his 17-year-old daughter Sahra at the train station on her way to school. It was only that evening, when Sahra failed to meet her father at the station, that...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Writing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prisoners of Homs’s central prison, who live in extremely hard circumstances, have threatened to begin a hunger strike in order to achieve their demands, according to statement...

(Reuters) - U.S.-led forces conducted six air strikes against Islamic State militants and one against the al Qaeda-affiliated Khorasan Group in Syria since Monday and 24 air strikes in Iraq during the same period, the U.S. military said. In Syria , the military said on...

Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)-   Many people from Homs’s countryside were forced to leave their regime-held villages in the northeastern countryside of Homs, to live in primitive camp near Zafarana...

(Reuters) - On edge but faithful to their religious routine, worshippers returned on Wednesday to the Jerusalem synagogue where four rabbis and a policeman were killed in a Palestinian attack a day earlier. The bloodstains had been washed away. But four memorial candles burned...

Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- The number of Syrian disabled has increased significantly in the last three years since the revolution started in March 2011, as a result of indiscriminate bombing on...

Syria's once-promising economy has been set back more than 30 years by its brutal civil war, economists say, and it may never recover. Squeezed by sanctions and the fallout of the more than three-year-old conflict, the government faces dwindling revenues and is increasingly...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels have killed senior commander of Syrian regime armed forces on Tuesday near al-Shaer gas field east Homs province, pro-regime media feeds reported. Brigadier Muhsen Said Hussein, top officer in military Intelligence,...