Translation by Dani Murad ( Zaman Alwasl )- Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, Syrians have been arbitrarily arrested, detained, physically abused, harassed, and tortured by the government forces, pro-regime militias, and mainly by the...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- It seems that protesting against Bashar al-Assad has begun to be intensified in the Alawite villages more than ever before especially after increasing in the amount of their lost of fighters and Shabiha. this time,...
(Reuters) - Tribal leaders and clerics from Iraq's Sunni heartland offered their conditional backing on Friday for a new government that hopes to contain sectarian bloodshed and an offensive by Islamic State militants that threatens to tear the country apart. One of the...
(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday. "They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon," senior...
By Al Hussein Al Shishakli (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 27 opposition figures have nominated themselves to lead National Coalition’s interim government according to Friday’s list which seen by Zaman Alwasl. The most likely candidates are form government’s head Dr. Ahmed...
(AFP)- At least 22 people were killed Friday when a car bomb exploded in front of a mosque in Daraa province of southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Among the dead in the blast in the rebel-controlled town of Namar were a woman and a child, the...
Twenty-five percent of the new companies started up in Turkey in the first seven months of this year were set up by Syrians or partnered by Syrians, according to data from the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey. According to the data, of the more than...
(Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is set to try and weaken Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria on Friday by blacklisting six people and threatening sanctions against those who finance , recruit or supply weapons to the insurgents, diplomats said. A...
(Reuters) - With minorities facing death and persecution at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , Lebanon's Christians must lay aside their rivalries and agree on who should fill the vacant presidency, a leading Druze politician has warned. Walid Jumblatt, the...
(Reporting by Zeina AL Chofi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- It is well known that fighters have relied on tunnels to achieve much important operation against regime. The most important ones were exploding TAMECO building in Mleiha and...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday took control of two strategic villages in Hama province as regime warplanes rocked towns the western northern countryside in response, activists and monitoring group said. Activists said controlling...
(Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- Naser al-Noqqari, a Syrian opposition figure from Alawite sect was subject to abduction and attempt of assassination two weeks ago, by people he described as “an Assad's...
(Reuters) - Nuri al-Maliki finally bowed to pressure within Iraq and beyond on Thursday and stepped down as prime minister, paving the way for a new coalition that world and regional powers hope can quash a Sunni Islamist insurgency that threatens Baghdad. Maliki ended eight...
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(Reuters) - Syrian government forces backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah took control of a town just outside Damascus from Islamist fighters on Thursday, a blow to the rebels who had held it for more than a year. Syrian state television broadcast showed government soldiers in the...
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(Zaman Alwasl)- As the Islamic State group is making rapid advances in northern Aleppo, key rebel factions have formed a joint command room to stop IS invasion which may reach border crossing with Turkey as well may reflect a humiliating defeat on rebels. Sources...
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All Syria's precursor chemicals that could be used to make deadly sarin gas have been destroyed on board a US Navy ship on the Mediterranean Sea, the world's chemical watchdog said on Wednesday. "All 581 metric tonnes of a precursor chemical for sarin gas that were removed from...
Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS or ISIL) seized two key towns and several villages in Syria’s Aleppo province on Wednesday after routing rival fighters, opposition groups and activists said. The capture is the latest victory for...
