REYHANLI Turkey (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against al Qaeda-inspired militants in Syria pose a problem for moderate rebel opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Western-backed rebels say they face a backlash from Syrians angered by...

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's foreign minister said Monday that his government is satisfied with the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State group, adding that the airstrikes should be expanded to include all other militant groups in Syria. In an interview with The...

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Islamic State jihadists advanced Monday to within five kilometres (three miles) of the key Kurdish town of Ain al-Arab on Syria's border with Turkey, a monitor said. The jihadists fired a volley of rockets that hit the town centre, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said,...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star): Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas Saturday further lobbied for his proposal to establish refugee camps for Syrians, saying Kuwait was ready to fund the camps that would better organize the overwhelming presence of refugees in the country. “The...

Reporting by Lama Shammas; Writing by Yusra Ahmed ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Step, theatrical band, consists of Syrian youth, was founded in Aleppo, but now it performs some shows in Istanbul. “The band was founded in 2012, used to consist...

Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- Source from the Syrian Interim Government reported to Zaman al-Wasl that Ahmed Tomeh, the Interim Prime Minister, has issued an order preventing employees and customers from letting...

(Reuters) - The head of Syria's al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has said U.S.-led air strikes will not defeat Islamists in Syria and warned that militants might launch retaliatory attacks against Western countries. Abu Mohamad al-Golani, in an audio message posted on pro-Nusra jihadi...

Since Islamic State (Isis) were formed in their current incarnation in April last year, they have had a dilemma: how to gain legitimacy from the local population while continuing to be ruthless and genocidal against fellow Sunnis. The decision by the American-led...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become "ground zero" for jihadists worldwide, President Barack Obama said in a CBS television interview broadcast on Sunday. Conversely, the United...

Damascus, Sep 28 (IANS) As many as 1,500 Kurdish fighters joined their fellow Kurds in Syria's Kobani city to fight the Islamic State (IS) radical group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday. The 1,500 Kurdish fighters have streamed from Turkey through the borders...

Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Writing by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- It has become clear that the new international shifts relating to the elimination of the "Islamic state" are bringing a major change on the Syrian scene, both military and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of miles from his ravaged homeland in the comfort and security of midtown Manhattan, Raed Saleh chokes up as he recalls some of the horrors he has witnessed as a rescue worker in northern Syria. He feels angry, cheated and most of all, deeply sad for his...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As 345 Syrians migrants have been rescued on Thursday by a cruise ship near Cyprus, activists say the refugees who fled Syria are facing miserable arrest conditions by Cypriot army, appealing to the key opposition group to intervene....

AMMAN (Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front on Saturday denounced U.S.-led air strikes on Syria, saying they amounted to a war against Islam and vowing to retaliate against Western and Arab countries that took part. "We are in a long war. This war will not...

(Reuters) - Wars in Syria and Iraq, and instability in other hotspots are driving ever more people to seek asylum in wealthy nations, with requests on track to hit a 20-year high in 2014, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Some 330,700 people sought...