For Ukraine’s Muslims, the ongoing political crisis should not directly affect their 500,000 member community, according to the country’s grand mufti. However, according to observers, a Russia-leaning swing in politics could be “totally suicidal” for Ukrainian Muslims. The crisis in...
Political Committee Secretary of the National Coalition has asked the key opposition members to vote yes or no over the nomination of Haitham al-Maleh as Syria’s envoy to the Arab League. Mr. Hadi al-Bahra, in a message sent Friday to NC’s members and seen by Zaman Alwasl,...
Life of many doctors in Syria have changed dramatically, especially those who lived or worked in hot areas. We all remember Dr. Mohammed Almohammed, the dentist from Baba-Amr who run the field hospital during the conflict and siege of Baba-Amr in 2012. Dr. Karam,...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday Israel was doing all that was "necessary" to ensure its security, following reports of an air raid against Hezbollah targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border. "We are doing everything that is necessary in order to defend the security of...
Jerd Arsal, Lebanese-Syrian border - On the blurry border line between Syria and Lebanon lies a small stone building hidden in the rugged, mountainous terrain. It is a "surveillance centre" set up by rebels to monitor the "potential infiltration" of Shia Hezbollah fighters...
With very simple equipment, a group of Syrian activist from Hama city is trying to protect their people through mentoring jet fighters' movements. Hiding near a very important military airport near Hama , an activist warns his group each time he sees or hears through a...
Iraqi Shiite activists, loyal to Bashar al-Assad, have mourned top commander of Thu al-Faqqar militia who was killed in Syria recently. Haidar Jebouri, dubbed “Abu Shahd” reportedly has been killed in Daraa province by Syrian rebels, activists of the embattled city of Daraa...
Key Islamist groups in Aleppo have formed joint command room to unified efforts to repel Assad’s forces attacks, said in statement posted online. The commanders of Islamic Front, Al Mujahedeen Army and Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front have signed a statement calling for...
Local human rights organizations are demanding that government agencies track down the Saudi biological fathers of children born to Syrian women who have since become refugees in Jordan and Turkey in the wake of the Syrian civil war. These citizens-turned-refugees have no documents to...
Abu Mohamed al-Golani, the leader of al-Qaeda-linked group Al Nusra Front, in voice statement has mourned Syrian rebel commander, who fought alongside al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and was close to its current chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. Abu Khaled al-Suri,...
In 2012, significant part of Aleppo was liberated by the Free Syrian Army “FSA” and regime kept controlling the rest especially West and centre of the City. Zaman Alwasl correspondent had visited in Regime’s controlled Area and reported that first and most important...
Jordanian border guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a large amount of ammunition from Syria and arrested five people early Monday, the army said. "Border guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a large amount of ammunition and other material from Syria...
Security sources told Al Arabiya News late Monday that Israeli airstrikes have targeted a site belonging to the Shiite Lebanese movement Hezbollah near the Lebanon-Syrian borders. The airstrikes killed a number of Hezbollah members, the sources said. Meanwhile, Al Arabiya’s...
Israeli airstrikes have targeted sites belonging to the Shiite Lebanese movement Hezbollah near the Lebanon-Syrian borders, Al Arabiya’s correspondent cited local reports as saying. The correspondent also reported that explosions were heard on the borders close to Lebanon’s Bekaa area.
Air raids on rebel-held towns across Syria killed 26 people on Monday, activists said, two days after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to indiscriminate shelling and aerial attacks. Syria's almost three-year-old conflict has raged on...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday that Iran's nuclear program was the biggest threat to global security. "I would like to discuss the ways to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons capability,"...
Syrian intelligence has freed Akram al-Bunni, t he prominent leftist writer and former political prisoner o n Monday , his brother Anwar said on his Facebook page. Al Bunni was abducted as he left a wedding reception at a central Damascus hotel on...
Egypt's government resigned on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife. After the July overthrow of elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and subsequent crackdown...
Israel has invited Indian companies to take part in extracting natural gas from its newly-found reserves, with 40 percent of the produced hydrocarbon reserved for exports, even as it wants talks on a free trade pact to fructify soon. Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz said his...
Syria’s Health Ministry says swine flu has killed 9 people in Hama province with 36 swine flu cases across the country. Syria’s Health Ministry confirmed the country’s first case of swine flu in 2009 when an Australian woman of Syrian origin arrived in the country five...
