Shopping is no longer among the priorities for Syrian families in Damascus due to the rapid and drastic increase in the prices of clothes as a result of factories’ closure and the inflation which ate the Syrian Pound. Damascus shops lie empty and people only pass by them to take a look at the...

Groups of youths on motorcycles drove around Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh area Sunday in celebration of the Syrian government’s successful assault on the rebel held city of Yabrud which was achieved with the aid of Hezbollah fighters. The celebratory parade was photographed by NOW’s...

     Commander of Fajer al-Sham movement, Islamist rebel group, called in an interview with Zaman Alwasl to establish a unified council for jihadist as he said that his movement had decided to stand on neutrality over the infighting between the State of Iraq and the Levant...

Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah militants took full control of the town of Yabroud on Sunday after driving out rebels, helping President Bashar al-Assad secure the land route linking the capital Damascus to Aleppo and the Mediterranean coast. The fall of Yabroud, the last...

Many wonder about ways of support, the Assistance Coordination Unit “ACU”, run by the coalition, provide to Qalamoun in these crucial period of heavy fight with regime. In a reply to such query, Dr. Osama Kadi, the Executive Director of the ACU said to Zaman Alwasl: “we managed to establish a...

You can watch the fourth episode of 'President and Women'. The sitcom which has sparked outrage recently amid the opposition ranks as well as  between Assad's loyalist since the YouTube series first episode has been streamed online Feb 15. The Syrian political sitcom, which...

This month marks three years of an uprising that has swept through Syria, leaving death and ruin in its wake. Aleppo has suffered 18 months of brutal, divisive conflict. The city now lies split, both in territorial control and along social, political fault...

Egypt's interim government has pledged "decisive" action and ordered heightened security after armed men killed six soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint. The shooting on Saturday morning came two days after armed men killed a soldier in Cairo, as fighters once based in the Sinai Peninsula...

France will not "close its eyes" to the Syrian conflict despite other crises taking center stage, French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday, promising to increase efforts to reach a political solution. More than 140,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million have...

Regime’s decision to close Syrian Embassy in Kuwait causes disturbance in Syrian community and encourages bribery. Syrian Regime’s decision to close its Embassy in Kuwait caused great deal of disruption among Syrian community in the country, subsequently, dozens of Syrians queued in...

One person was killed and three wounded on Saturday in eastern Lebanon by rockets fired from neighbouring Syria, a security source told AFP. Four rockets hit the Nabi Uthman and Labweh areas, both of which are sympathetic to the Shiite Hezbollah movement, the source said. One...

 Syria rebels in Qalamoun have denied reports that Assad’s forces entered the embattled city of Yabroud. “Yabroud did not fall,” Yabroud local coordination said in statement posted online, “Assad's forces and Iran proxy Hezbollah have retreated due to the patriotic resistance of rebels....

Syria's parliament has set residency rules for presidential candidates, state media said on Friday, a move that would bar many of President Bashar al-Assad's foes who live in exile as the uprising in the major Arab state enters its fourth year. Assad has not yet announced...

Legal procedures are being taken against 52 charity organizations operating under Islamic names in Al Mafraq city in Jordan, on charges of corruption and abuse of trust. The 52 are of total 72 charity organization operating in Jordan to provide aid to Syrian refuges, an activist said. What was...

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the March 11 suicide bombings that killed nine civilians in the city of Qamishli, the unofficial capital of the Kurdish regions of Syria. The al-Qaeda offshoot asserted in a statement released March...

Syria's government has promised greater access for aid groups supporting millions of Syrians, but faster progress is needed to tackle a dire humanitarian crisis, the head of the United Nations children's agency said on Friday. UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake, speaking at a...

In the heart of Syria's devastated city of Homs, once hailed as the "capital of the revolution," President Bashar al-Assad looks down from a banner calling for his reelection. "Because you are a symbol of our victory and our resistance, we implore you to be a candidate for the...

The third anniversary of the outbreak of the Syrian uprising has been marked with powerful, creative new campaigns designed to stir the world’s conscience. Save the Children UK’s heart-wrenching video of the collapse of a young girl’s life into civil war has been viewed more than 25...

Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, heightening suspicions of foul play among investigators, sources told Reuters on Friday. Analysis of the Malaysia data suggests the...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem is scheduled to undergo bypass surgery after being admitted to a Beirut hospital, medical sources said Friday. The sources told The Daily Star that Moallem is in stable condition at the American University of Beirut-Medical Center's intensive...