The global media headlined on June 3 a political exercise conducted in Assad regime-controlled areas of Syria. Most reports described it as Syrian presidential elections with three candidates and a likely winner, the incumbent Bashar al-Assad. The exercise was illustrated with...

BEIRUT - John Kerry arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, beginning an unannounced visit that is the first by a US secretary of state to Lebanon in five years, an AFP journalist said.   Kerry is in Beirut to announce $290 million in aid to boost UN efforts in Syria and neighboring...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Tuesday 3rd of June, the presidential election day in Syria, pro-Assad people painted their faces in the colors of the official Syrian flag near polling stations in Damascus, shouted, sang and danced, while holding up...

    (Translation by Yusra Ahmed)     Syrian NGO has initiated an attempt to return happiness and smile to children of Syrian refugee Camps in Syrian border with Turkey. Workers of Nama’a Souriya organization (En:...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Against a backdrop of civil war, tens of thousands of Syrians voted in government-controlled cities and towns Tuesday to give President Bashar Assad a new seven-year mandate, with some even marking the ballots with their own blood. The carefully...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama’s former ambassador to Damascus harshly criticized the White House Syria policy on Tuesday, saying Washington should have done more earlier to arm moderate rebel factions. Robert Ford said in an interview with the PBS NewsHour...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) DAMASCUS- (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian security has arrested Rasha Shorbaji, 32 years old with her 3 children “Owais 4 years, Mona 2 years and Batool a year and a half old". Besides, their two aunts Bana al-Abbar, 38 and Laila...

(Writing by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl-Leaked documents)- Under the pretext of non-availability of suitable premises to be classrooms and despite the thousands of buildings related to the ministry which are distributed...

Russia said Tuesday it would not shirk efforts to find a political solution in Syria during its month-long presidency of the UN Security Council, calling for a new mediator to be appointed without delay. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, under fire from Western colleagues for...

Damascus, June 4 (IANS) Syria's electoral committee Tuesday extended the presidential voting period for another five hours in view of a high voter turnout, the media reported. "The closing time for voting has been pushed to midnight in all provinces...

It was in Baba Amr, in Syria's Homs, that the armed uprising against Bashar al-Assad erupted, but with people turning out to vote Tuesday as the president sought re-election, the spirit of revolution seemed to have vanished. A loudspeaker outside the Hassan al-Sabet school, the...

Syrian community activists in Belgium have called for a mass rally in front of European Parliament on Tuesday in protest against Assad’s presidential elections. Free Syrian Community Coordination in Belgium said in statement, obtained by Zaman...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — With security heightened in Damascus and thousands fearing rebel attacks in other cities, Syria holds an election Tuesday in the middle of its bloody civil war — a vote that President Bashar Assad is expected to win easily and that critics have denounced as a...

(Zaman Alwasl)- In statement issued Saturday, rebel and jihadist groups in Hama have announced the province a military zone by June 2, day before the planned presidential elections. The rebel factions of the famous war-torn city in the last century eighties, called for...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Main rebel groups in Deir Ezzor city pledged in statement issued Sunday to patronize each other as to avoid infighting and to have one command room to fight Bashar al-Assad's forces. Media activist, preferred anonymity, say to Z aman...

The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said. The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also...

Syria entered its final day of campaigning on Sunday for the June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, a vote the opposition brands a "parody of democracy". With swathes of the country out of government control, voting will only take place in...

PARIS (AP) — A suspected French jihadist who spent time in Syria is in custody over the shooting deaths of three people at a Belgian Jewish museum, prosecutors said Sunday, crystalizing fears that European radicals will parlay their experiences in Syria into terrorism back home....

(Zaman Alwasl)- Islam Army, main Islamic Front unit, announced Sunday taking control of neighboring orchards to al-Mleiha town near Damascus. Islam Army said in statement posted online that its fighters had killed 25 soldiers in the latest...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- Sources reported to Zaman Alwasl that many political figures inside Syria are about to announce the formation of a Political Rescue Movement aims to call for a National conference to regain the national...