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In recent weeks Russia has stepped up supplies of military gear to Syria, including armored vehicles, drones and guided bombs, boosting President Bashar al-Assad just as rebel infighting has weakened the insurgency against him, sources with knowledge of the deliveries say....
Two British men were charged on Friday with travelling to Syria for the purposes of terrorism, police said, while another man was arrested on suspicion of attending a terror camp in the war-ravaged country. Yusuf Sawar and Mohammed Ahmed, both 21 and from Birmingham...
Syrian rebels counteracted Al Qaeda reinforcement's convoy to the city of Manbij north Aleppo, source said. The State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) waged a severe campaign to recapture its bases and strongholds in Aleppo province in similar scenario to Raqqa east Syria. But...
Rebel Free Syrian Army seized Friday parts of border village with Lebanon after ambushing forces loyal to Basher al-Assad and its backed militia Hezbollah. FSA source told Zaman Alwasl that rebels have made advances in Jouciya, a neighboring village to Qusayr city,...
‘President and Women’ is a Syrian sitcom will be streaming soon on YouTube, it follows in a comedian approach the relationship between presidents of the dictatorship regimes and women, as their romantic relationships and scandals. The sitcom which is produced by Zaman...
For a modest fee Ibrahim leads Syrians across the Turkish border, one of many services his organisation, the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front, provides to those in need. On a recent day he led a line of taxis up a muddy road through olive groves toward Turkey's border with Syria,...
We can not deny that the National Coalition with all its suffer of rifts and fractions is still the legitimate group by the International Community amid the Syrian opposition . But is this recognition able to be last longing if NC failed to attend the planned peace...
Syria's opposition gathered in Istanbul on Friday to vote on whether to attend peace talks next week with President Bashar al-Assad's government, under heavy pressure from Western backers to endorse negotiations. With just five days to go, the opposition National Coalition remains...
The Syrian government, preparing for peace talks with rebels next week, handed the Russian co-sponsors of the conference a proposal on Friday for a local ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners. There was no immediate response from President Bashar al-Assad's opponents, whose very...
A deadly rocket attack targeted the eastern Beqaa town of Arsal on Friday morning, killing at least seven people “Seven people have been killed and 15 others injured in the rocket attack on Arsal,” Lebanon’s state National News Agency reported. The news...
Islamist rebels have seized Base 46, last headquarters for the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) in western countryside of Aleppo, Islamic Front sources told Zaman Alwasl. The former regular army base was under rebels’ control before expelling them by ISIL...
A string of car bombs have hit the Islamist rebels' barracks and checkpoints, carried by the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) since the infighting has erupted two weeks ago. Suicide attacks and blasts seemed to be one of most dangerous war strategies by Al Qaeda...
Islamist rebels ambushed Assad’s army troops in Sheikh Said district of Aleppo on Thursday, leaving 20 soldiers dead, Islamic Front source told Zaman Alwasl. IF rebels also made a progress in the industrial zone of Sheikh Najjar near Aleppo city against the Islamic...
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has lost its HQ in Jarabulus city, north Aleppo, after fierce fighting with Islamist rebels for the last few days, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. ISIL’s commander in Jarabulus (Emir) Abu Huffs al-Masri has been killed,...
Syrian regime ambassador to Jordan, Bahjat Suleiman, exceeded again the diplomatic norms and practices after issuing an aggressive statement against a Jordanian parliament member. The statement described MB, Abdulla Ubeidat, as ‘a pawn in the Wahabist-Zionist axis with more...
Turkey’s embattled government has been accused of suspected weapons shipments to Syria—but tighter border controls could end up harming moderate rebels and helping jihadists. Al-Qaeda could emerge as the unlikely winner as supplies for more moderate rebels crossing the long...
As Western countries display increasing alarm at the strength of multinational Islamist extremists among rebels in Syria opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian official was quoted on Wednesday as saying Western intelligence agencies had sent representatives to Damascus...
An expert in Turkish affairs said to Zaman Alwasl that Gul’s speech had driven out of context by media outlets, especially by Assad's loyal media. Analyst Abdul Qader Abdully said that President Gül did not mention any changes in Turkish policy regarding the Syrian people in...
The trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members accused of murdering former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri in 2005 opens at a UN-backed court on Thursday, with sectarian violence an undiminished threat at home. Nine years after the huge Beirut car bombing killed billionaire...
Lebanon: A suspected suicide car bombing killed at least four people and wounded 42 others in a bustling neighborhood in the northeastern town of Hermel Thursday, a security source told The Daily Star. The blast occurred during the morning rush hour near the town’s...
