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The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the universe had existed for ever. The reason humanity was not more developed, he believed, was that floods or other natural disasters repeatedly set civilisation back to the beginning. Today, humans are developing ever faster. Our...
US Secretary of State John Kerry has blamed the Syrian government for stonewalling peace talks, intended to bring the civil war to an end, and told Moscow it had to stop supplying President Bashar al-Assad's regime with weapons. Kerry told reporters in Jakarta on Monday that Russia...
The implications of Salim Idriss’s dismissal remain unclear on the battle ground amid mutual accusations of treason between rebel commanders themselves who divided between a supporter to the ousted Syria’s opposition Supreme Military Council leader and an...
Russia could build a second reactor at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant in exchange for Iranian oil, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow said in remarks published on Monday. Russia could also supply Iran with trucks, railroad tracks, mini-refineries or other...
Syrian government forces kept up their shelling of the town of Yabroud and the surrounding Qalamoun region over the weekend, as both sides claimed advances ahead of an expected all-out assault on the rebel-held town. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...
Two Islamist rebel groups Sunday agreed to end the fighting between each other in Aleppo, according to a statement, seen by Zaman Alwasl. The reconciliation agreement held between Jaish Al Muhajereen wa Al Ansar, Jihadist group mostly foreign fighters led by Salah al-Din...
The Supreme Military Council has dismissed General Salim Idriss and his deputy. Idriss, who defected from the Syrian Army in July 2012 and was elected head of the SMC five months later, has been succeeded by Brigadier Abdel-Ilah al-Bashir....
Ten gunmen from Syria opened fire on troops patrolling an isolated border area in the north, the Associated Press reported a Jordanian army spokesman as saying. It is the first time that Jordan publicly reports an armed attack from Syria, although there have been several smuggling...
Rebels in the Syrian city of Hama have claimed that they are gradually making gains against the Syrian army, Al Jazeera's correspondent Jamal Elshayyal reports. Opposition fighters said they have been able to advance on government-held positions after receiving...
All Syrian opposition fighters in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk in southern Damascus have withdrawn, a Palestinian official told AFP on Sunday. Anwar Abdel Hadi, an official with the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said the pullout came after an agreement...
Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah said Sunday his party would continue fighting in Syria despite the wave of car bombings targeting predominantly Shiite areas in Lebanon controlled by Hezbollah. “I will not repeat what I explained before about the reason we went to Syria and...
A well-informed source reported to Zaman Alwasl that Col. Abdel Jabbar Al Aqidi will be the top military figure for the opposition in coming period, according to European and Saudi will in particular. Al Aqidi has a good reputation within the armed opposition and...
The evacuation of civilians from Syria's Homs city has halted, with no new efforts to extend a truce and the governor saying Sunday "armed groups" prevented operations a day earlier. In a statement, Talal Barazi said "the evacuation of civilians was not carried...
Lawyers for deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi withdrew in protest after he appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt . Mursi's legal team protested they could not hear their client speak from inside a...
Rebels detonated mines in tunnels under a hotel used by the army in northern Syria's Aleppo on Friday, killing at least five soldiers, a monitoring group said. "Islamist rebels dug several tunnels under and around the Carlton hotel in Aleppo's Old City, where government...
Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led revolts against U.S. forces in Iraq before their pullout and became a major influence in the government, said he is leaving political life and has dissolved his movement. Sadr gave no reason for the retirement announced...
Islamist militants disguised as security officials killed three Tunisian policemen and a civilian in an attack near the border with Algeria, the state news agency TAP said on Sunday. The agency did not name any group in the attack. Tunisia's security forces have been battling...
Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt , in a further escalation of the crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood. Declaring it "the biggest case of conspiracy in the...
The death toll of al-Yadouda car explosion in Daraa Friday rose to 47 people, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Activists have accused regime forces of carrying out the attack near a mosque in al-Yadouda town, the number of martyrs is likely to rise...
At least 10 pepole have been killed and dozens have been wounded on Friday evening due to Assad’s army shelling on a bazaar in al-Wafideen refugee camp, 15 miles northeast Damascus, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. Most of casualties were Street vendors...
