Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Alwasl)- One of the tactics used by Bashar al-Assad against the Syrian revolution is to increase estrangement between the Syrian people using purely sectarian motives, by deepening the feeling of “them” and “us”, a reminder of the destruction of the...

(AFP)- Attacks on aid workers reached a new peak in 2013, with 155 relief staff killed, and this year is shaping up as equally deadly, according to figures released Tuesday. Afghanistan topped the list of countries where aid workers faced greater risk, with 81 killed in 2013,...

Damascus (IANS) Syrian government Tuesday welcomed global cooperation in its fight against terrorism. Hailing the international support, deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad stressed his country's resolve to cooperate with any country battling terrorism "except those who pretend...

The jihadist Islamic State has more than 50,000 fighters in Syria and recruited 6,000 last month alone, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The group, which relies on activists, doctors and lawyers on the ground in Syria for its reporting, said...

Damascus, (IANS) At least five people were killed and 18 wounded Tuesday in a renewed mortar shelling against a central Syrian town, state media reported. The victims were killed and injured when the rebels fired mortar shells against Qamhaneh town in the northern countryside...

(Zaman Alwasl)-   At least 250. 000 Syrians are wanted to the Syrian Intelligence according to an exclusive leak by Zaman Alwasl which provides the reader by a special search engine including names of wanted people. The search engine is a...

(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents who control territory in   Iraq and   Syria   released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago. The video, titled "A Message To...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- Rebels have intensified shelling on Alawite villages in Hama province, pressing slow advances in the northern countryside and sparking fears of Bashar ’al-Assad loyalists. Normal 0 false...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Warnings from an international research group and the Federal Aviation Administration underscore the rising threat to commercial aircraft posed by hundreds of anti-aircraft weapons that are now in the arsenals of armed groups in Syria and could easily be diverted to...

(Reuters) - A Kurdish protester was shot dead and two others were wounded in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday as they clashed with security forces dismantling a newly erected statue of a prominent Kurdish militant. Soldiers backed by military helicopters were removing the statue...

(Reuters) - Israel said Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza on Tuesday in violation of a truce, attacks that swiftly drew air strikes and the recall of Israeli negotiators from talks in Cairo on a long-term ceasefire. Three rockets struck southern Israel ,...

( Reuters)- Fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah have killed a top militant from the Islamic State group in Syria who allegedly planned bloody attacks in Lebanon, according to a monitoring group on Tuesday . The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...

BEIRUT: More than 6,000 new fighters joined Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Syria last month in the militant group's fastest expansion to date, a body monitoring the war said Tuesday. ISIS, previously estimated to number some 15,000, has seized control of large areas...

  The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group that has seized large parts of Iraq and drawn the first American air strikes since the end of the occupation in 2011 has warned the United States it will attack Americans “in any place” if the...

(Reuters) - A specially equipped U.S. ship has finished neutralizing all 600 metric tons of the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapons components surrendered to the international community this year to avert threatened air strikes, the Pentagon said on Monday. It said the...

n">(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has barred all American airlines from flying over Syria , saying the ongoing conflict poses a "serious potential threat." The FAA had previously warned American carriers to avoid flying over Syria . The new rule...

(Reporting by Lama Shammas; Translation by Dani Murad) “Syrians have not shown gratitude and respect toward the Turkish’s hospitality”, is a sentence that began to spread among Turks in the city of Istanbul, after it was considered the “reality” by...

(Zaman Alwasl)- At least 16 Syrian army troops have been killed in Morek town in the northern countryside of Hama province, field activists said. Activists said 16 soldiers form Republican Guards, regime’s elite forces, were killed as fierce clashes...

(Reuters) - Kuwait briefly detained a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric less than two weeks after the United States included him on a sanctions list on suspicion he was funneling money to militants in Iraq and Syria , his lawyer said on Monday. Shafi al-Ajmi, who was detained...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has established an “Islamic curriculum” for students living in the Syrian northern city of Raqqa and banned the study of philosophy and chemistry, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Friday. The militants called on...