The medical office in Yabrud expressed worries over lack of  the urgent medical and relief needs in this recent crucial time of severest attack on the rebel city by Bashar al-Assad's forces backed by Hezbollah and other Shiite Militias. The Main needs according to...

  Activists have circulated in the internet undated photo for militant posing to camera with the flag of Amal Movement, fellow- Hezbollah militia, purporting it was taken in Syria.  The photo is a new evidence for involving a new Lebanese Shiite militia in fighting...

In their first appeared at press conference  held by Syrian media, the freed nuns have sparked outrage amid Bashar al-Assad’s loyalists as they said "We have been treated well by 'al-Jabha' Nusra Front," al-Qaeda-linked group. “We kept practicing our rituals, everything...

The Arab League on Sunday endorsed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's rejection of Israel's demand for recognition as a Jewish state, as U.S.-backed peace talks approach a deadline next month. The United States want Abbas to make the concession as part of efforts to reach a...

Qatar will likely face higher labor costs as a result of publicity about deaths of migrant  construction  workers building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament, the International Monetary Fund said. Britain's Guardian newspaper reported in...

Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia  Airlines  jetliner with 239 people on board suspect it may have disintegrated in mid-flight, a senior source said on Sunday, as Vietnam reported a possible sighting of wreckage from the plane. International police...

Islamist rebels have targeted Bashar al-Assad’s hometown by Grad missiles,   Islam Army spokesman told Zaman Alwasl. Captain, Islam Alloush said that the main Islamic Front unit, Islam Army, had targeted six bases of Assad’s forces in Latakia city by Grad...

Chechen fighters in Aleppo Province report that the independent Syrian faction Nuraddin Az Zinki,with assistance from Chechen-led faction Jaish al-Muhajireen wal Ansar have moved southeast from Kafr Hamra towards Aleppo. They are battling Assad’s forces on the outskirts of Balleramoun,...

A group of nuns held by rebels in Syria for more than three months have been released and are on their way to Damascus via Lebanon. A Lebanese security source said the nuns had been taken to the Lebanese town of Arsal earlier in the week and were headed to Syria on Sunday...

Syria’s opposition Interim government has decried in statement the founding of the supreme council for Local Administrations was announced in Gaziantep, Turkey recently.  The Interim Local Administration Ministry issued a statement refusing recognition of the newly...

Syria’s key opposition has received an invitation to visit White House and to meet the U.S. President Barack Obama, well-informed source said. The under secretary of state for political affairs, Wendy Sherman, has invited Mr. Ahmad Jarba onn the sidelines of Syrian talks in Geneva,...

A large Qatar-backed bloc that left Syria's opposition National Coalition has reversed its decision and wants to rejoin, setting the scene for a clash with the group's Saudi-backed president, opposition sources said on Sunday. The 40-member bloc, which quit the 120-member coalition...

A Beirut-based satellite television channel said that one of its cameramen was killed on Saturday while covering the fighting in eastern Syria. Omar Abdel Qader, who was killed in Deir Ezzor, worked for the privately owned Al-Mayadeen station which supports the government of Syrian...

The general coordinator of the internal-opposition National Body for the Democratic Change, has expressed desire to call for a third consultative meeting with the West-backed National Coalition. "Despite the Coalition’s previous unfulfilled promises," Hassan Abdel Azim told Zaman...

Egypt's interim president has signed into law a bill aimed at regulating the upcoming presidential election, paving the way for army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to take part and win. Adly Mansour , the interim president, issued the decree on Saturday with the elections commission...

A Sunni Lebanese militant group linked to al Qaeda has apologized for the civilian casualties of a suicide bombing last month and said its fight was against Iran and its ally Hezbollah, not Shi'ites in general. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades took credit for a February 19 attack on Shi'ite...

Qalamoun, Syria -  In a tiny village perched in the folds of one of Syria's highest mountains, a rebel commander sits behind the steering wheel of his parked pick-up truck, listening for the first time to an anthem created by his enemies vowing to give him and his comrades "dark...

Syrian regime troops Saturday captured a rebel-held town near a famed Crusader castle in the strategic province of Homs, state media and a monitoring group said, after nearly a month of fighting. The town of Zara, near the Krak des Chevaliers castle in Homs province, fell to government...

Activists  have posted the names of 33 men  who they claim were Hezbollah fighters killed in the regime offensive near Yabroud, northeast of Damascus. Pro-Assad forces have tried for almost a month to close on Yabroud, the biggest city in the Qalamoun region. On Friday,...

The rebel Free Syrian Army has confirmed the appointment of its new chief, Brigadier General Abdel Ilah al-Bashir, after former head General Selim Idriss had initially refused to step down. The FSA confirmed "the dismissal of Idriss and the appointment of... Bashir as head of the Supreme...