The Islamic Front top commander and Islam Army Leader has refuted a statement, attributed to IF, saying Islamist rebels will halt fighting with al-Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Zahran Alloush denied on his official twitter account...

Firefights and shelling on Sunday shattered a weeks-old truce at the Yarmuk Palestinian camp in Damascus, but a ceasefire allowed residents to return to another besieged area near Syria’s capital. Syria’s three-year conflict is estimated to have killed more than 140,000 people,...

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged on Monday for the need to re-launch the Syrian peace process, stressing that Damascus in particular must return to Geneva with a more “constructive position,” Agence France-Presse reported. The U.N. secretary general calling to reinstate the peace process...

Syrian troops seized control Monday of a village near the strategic rebel bastion of Yabrud as they pushed closer to the town near the border with Lebanon, state television said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, meanwhile, said the army, backed by Lebanon’s...

Two Los Angeles gang members appear to have joined the flow of foreigners flocking to fight in Syria – in this instance, on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. In a video posted online, the two men boast that they are on the front lines and fire their guns in the direction of what they...

An explosion killed three policemen in Bahrain during a protest in a village near the capital Manama on Monday, the Interior Ministry said, in one of the worst incidents of violence in recent months. The ministry said on its Twitter account that a group of protesters had broken...

    Documents obtained by Zaman Alwasl showed that Bashar al-Assad’s Authorities had agreed to arm Syrian Business men, especially in the embattled city of Aleppo over security precautions. Activists said that most merchants of Syria's commercial capital had...

Field sources have confirmed that the nerve agent sarin was used by Bashar al-Assad's forces in an attack on Islam Army in Adra city near Damascus on Sunday, leaving four rebels dead and twenty infected. The victims' symptoms were similar to the Aug. 21 2013 chemical...

Two Egyptian policemen were sentenced to 10 years in jail Monday for the killing of a blogger whose death rallied protesters in the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The two were sentenced following a retrial for the manslaughter and torture of Khaled Said in June 2010, when they...

The rising threat of war between  Ukraine  and  Russia spooked markets and sent investors scurrying for relative safety on Monday, pushing stocks down sharply and lifting gold to a four-month high. With Russian troops already on Ukrainian soil after an incursion...

The slavery drama "12 Years a Slave" won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry's highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen's unflinching portrayal of pre-Civil War...

Ukraine said  Russia  was building up armored vehicles on its side of a narrow stretch of water near the Ukrainian region of Crimea after President Vladimir Putin said he had the right to invade his neighbor, prompting a sell-off in Russian assets. Ukraine mobilized for war...

Gunmen burst into a court in a busy shopping area in the center of the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing at least 11 people in a brazen attack likely to shatter any prospect of meaningful peace negotiations with Taliban insurgents. A loud explosion reverberated across central...

Millions of children in the Middle East will be vaccinated against polio this month after the crippling disease resurfaced in conflict-hit Syria, the United Nations said Sunday. Mass vaccinations have already been launched in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria, while a similar campaign in...

The Assad regime continued the burial of the Geneva “peace” process on Saturday, two weeks after talks with the opposition in Switzerland ended in stalemate. Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations and a participant at Geneva, told the Syrian-American Forum...

Appeal calls went on loud from mosques in Deir al-Zour, requesting urgent support for rebels in their hardest battle against Syrian Regime in the city airport. Sources reported to Zaman Alwasl that regime in the beginning of the battle sacrificed low-ranked soldiers in...

Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews held a mass prayer in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest at a bill that would cut their community's military exemptions and end a tradition upheld since Israel's foundation. Ultra-Orthodox leaders had called on their men, women and children...

An al Qaeda splinter group in  Syria  has denied it was behind the killing of a prominent al Qaeda figure last week and appeared to reject an ultimatum from rival fighters to accept mediation or face all-out assault. The Islamic State in  Iraq  and the...

An opposition source says China is to open a dialogue with key opposition group in-exile, National Coalition. The source said that closed meeting took place recently between the Chinese envoy, who works in China Embassy in Turkey, and number of opposition figures in the NC...

 Veteran Spanish journalist Marc Marginedas, kidnapped in Syria in early September last year, has been freed, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Sunday. "I am very happy...I spoke to him early today, he is in reasonable shape, he is happy," Rajoy told Radio 5, Spain's public...