A British man thought to have carried out a suicide bombing in Syria last week was Abdul Waheed Majid, the BBC has learned. The 41-year-old, from Crawley in West Sussex, is believed to have carried out a suicide truck bombing in the city of Aleppo last Thursday. Officials have not...

The global chemical arms watchdog said Friday it has chosen two U.S. and Finnish companies to help destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal as part of an ambitious plan that has suffered a string of setbacks. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Finland’s Ekokem...

President Barack Obama will launch a new round of Middle East diplomacy Friday in a plush oasis in the arid California desert, hosting a Valentine’s Day summit with Jordan’s King Abdullah II. Obama and the king will swap the piles of snow in Washington for the Sunnylands retreat at the...

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on Friday described the situation in the country as “under control” and that the government in Tripoli was “working as normal” after an ex-army official announced suspension of the government and parliament in a foiled coup attempt. “The government is...

 Warning that "failure" was staring him in the face, the Syria peace talks mediator said on Thursday that the United States and Russia had promised renewed support to keep their rival Syrian allies talking. U.N. diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi met senior diplomats from Washington and...

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on Richter scale hit the Syrian-Turkish border at dawn on Friday and lasted for several seconds, according to the International Centers for Seismology. The center of the quake was 68 km SE of Adana, 22 km SW of Dörtyol . It occurred at a depth of...

Zaman Alwasl newspaper has exclusively obtained new documents and photos showing evidence of war crimes against dissidents . 24 days ago, the Turkish Anadolu News Agency exclusively published a report about Syria  war crime evidence , where a person who served...

IS PRESIDENT Obama creeping toward a rethinking of his Syria policy? Some words he spoke Tuesday raised our hopes. At a news conference with French President François Hollande, Mr. Obama described the Syrian conflict, which he dismissed five months ago as “ someone else’s civil war...

    Gaza's Hamas authorities have blocked a U.N. refugee agency from introducing textbooks promoting human rights into local schools, saying it ignores Palestinian cultural mores and focuses too heavily on "peaceful" means of conflict resolution....

Gunmen seized part of Sulaiman Bek town and nearby villages in northern Iraq on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reported local officials as saying. This is considered to be the latest instance of authorities losing ground to militants, who have held all of the city of Fallujah and parts...

Abu Huraira is haunted by memories of shells falling from the sky, ripping to pieces people trying to bury their loved ones in a Syrian graveyard. He is unnerved by the mental images of mutilated bodies, and of bones laid bare in his rebel comrades' deep wounds. But the...

  Bashar al-Assad’s military intelligence has arrested members of Souriya Al Jadid Party (en: New Syria) from their office in Tartous after their call to get rid of both regime and opposition figures, according to activists.  The powerful intelligence branch has...

A humanitarian ceasefire in the Syrian city of Homs was extended on Thursday for three more days, the city's governor told Reuters. "The ceasefire has been extended for an additional three days, starting from today, to allow the evacuation of the remaining civilians," Talal...

   Suqour al-Sahel brigade has joined the Islamist rebels in their war on Al Qaeda splinter, the State of Iraq and Al Sham, it said in video statement seen by Zaman Alwasl. Saeed Tarboush, leader of the rebel group that based in Syria's costal area, has addressed...

  49  Syrian rebel group south Syria have declared in statement, seen by Zaman Alwasl, to operate under one armed entity called 'The southern Front'. The Statement assured that the newly body, that belongs to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), will be the moderate...

Among the dwindling holdouts in the rebel-held Old City neighborhood of Homs, an area of the devastated Syrian city that international relief officials are trying to evacuate, is the former star goalkeeper of the national soccer team, transformed over three years from a pacifist...

Moscow Wednesday accused Washington of deliberately distorting its position on conflict-torn Syria, a day after US President Barack Obama branded Russia as a holdout against a UN draft resolution on Syria aid. "This is unlikely that our US partners do not possess real information on...

An explosion targeting a bus full of Pakistani policemen killed 11 and injured 33 near the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, officials said, in the latest incident of violence while the government and the Taliban are engaged in peace talks. Many of the wounded policemen...

Bashar al-Assad's forces and allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah stepped up attacks on Syria's strategic border town of Yabroud on Wednesday, activists said, in apparent preparation for a new offensive to flush out rebels. The assault is the latest step in Assad and...

   A soon speech expected for Hezbollah Militia leader, Hassan Nasrallah, amid blasts and scores of coffins wrapped by his party flag heading back to Lebanon from Syria everyday . According to the sources close to the party,  Nasrallah will deliver a speech...