Syrian rebels have made a progress in the industrial zone of Sheikh Najjar near Aleppo city against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Zaman Alwasl reporter said. Since a fortnight, the Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the nascent Mujahedeen Army, the...

Donors meeting in Kuwait have pledged nearly $2.4bn in humanitarian aid for victims of the Syrian war, which the UN chief says has left half the population in need of urgent help. Millions of Syrians have been driven from their homes as a result of the crisis, now in its...

  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...

   ‘Pr esident and Women’ is a Syrian sitcom will be streaming on YouTube soon; it follows in a comedian approach the relationship between presidents of the dictatorship regimes and women, as their romantic relationships and scandals. The main character will be Bashar...

The State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader has been killed in Saraqib City in Syria's Idleb province, according to Activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Activists reported that he was killed during an ambush by fighters from the Islamic front who...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) denied killing its military leader, the powerful foreign Jihadist Abu Omar Al Chechani north Syria, according to sources. Al Chechani, former commander in Al Nusra Front, is leading ISIL's infighting with Syrian rebels in...

Over one million Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon, but not all are eligible for aid. Refugees who are not registered with the United Nations have been forced to take desperate measures to survive. Fourteen-year-old Hanifa has agreed to marry a 44-year-old Lebanese landlord. Her...

 State security claimed that 40 Syrian detainees had been died due to heart attacks, a well-informed source from the embattled neighborhood of Mezzeh in Damascus city, told Zaman Alwasl. The Assad regime refused to deliver the detainees bodies to their relatives in...

  A series of bomb attacks on Wednesday targeted areas within the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba killing at least 52 people and injuring dozens more, police and hospital sources said, according to Agence France-Presse. In...

French president Francois Hollande told key Syrian opposition “not to go to Geneva if there is no ending for Bashar al-Assad’s rule,” Syrian Deputy Chairman of the National Coalition said in a report was sent to some opposition figures and obtained by Zaman Alwasl....

Kuwait's emir pledged on Wednesday $500 million for Syrians stricken by almost three years of civil war. Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah made the pledge at an international donor conference in Kuwait city attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Delegates...

Syrian rebels have made gains in Jarabulus city, north Aleppo, against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Jarabulus, the city which lies on the western bank of the Euphrates river, has been freed from the ISIL control except...

A memorial service was held in a Sydney mosque on Monday for Muslim woman Amira Karroum, and her husband Yusuf Ali who were killed in Syria last week. Amira Karroum, 22, had left her Sydney home in December, telling her family she was headed to Denmark to holiday with...

After crushing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, Egypt's military rulers plan to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the neighboring Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials told Reuters. The aim, which the officials say could take years to pull off,...

  6 Rebel groups in Eastern Ghouta of Damascus have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-linked group, Al Nusra Front, Jihadist websites reported. Analysts considered the merger as a strong sign that NF is occupying more influence against the radical group, the State of Iraq...

Powerful rebel group the Islamic Front denied news of controlling  Bab al-Hawa crossing border by  the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL),  according to Zaman Alwasl source. Al Mayadeen, Loyal satellite channel to Bashar al-Assad, aired news purporting that...

  A Lebanese group loyal to al-Qaeda vowed Tuesday to keep up its attacks against Iran, Hezbollah and Israel, less than a fortnight after the death of its leader, Majid al-Majid. The Saudi-born Majid, which claimed responsibility for a November attack on the Iranian...

A document issued on November 26, 2013 by Syria’s key opposition the National Coalition revealed that the former U.S. Ambassador to Damascus Mr. Robert Ford had told the NC officials that Geneva II will be without pre-conditions or guarantees. The American diplomat said that some of...

The country is preparing to adopt a new constitution, but its economy remains weak and its political situation unstable. On Thursday, Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh of the Islamist Ennahda party announced his resignation, following through on a compromise negotiated by the ruling...

The Syrian government has retaken territory around the northern city of Aleppo, the military said on Tuesday, after two weeks of rebel infighting that has weakened the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. The internecine conflict among some within the chaotic plethora of...