The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Thursday of "extreme human suffering" in Syria's Yarmouk camp, with state media saying "terrorists" had blocked aid from entering. Since September, at least 15 people have died from hunger in the camp, which came under...

Tunisia's Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh resigned on Thursday to make way for a caretaker government as part of a deal with his opponents to finish a transitional period. “I have just handed my resignation to the president,” Larayedh told reporters, in statements...

China is supporting the work of the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to safely remove materials of chemical weapons from Syria, a Chinese envoy said here Wednesday. "There has been new development in the shipping out chemical weapons material from...

Islamist rebels have seized the State of Iraq and Levant's  main stronghold in  al-Dana town in  Idlib province after almost one week of clashes,  Syrian Revolution a ctivists said.   Rebel fighters, who seized ISIL’s HQ in Aleppo yesterday, were...

  Disparate Syrian opposition groups, including several Islamist rebel representatives, met for the first time in the Spanish city of Cordoba to seek common ground ahead of peace talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s government later this month. After nearly three...

  A massive car bomb killed 18 people in the village of Kafat in Syria’s central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights NGO said. The monitoring group said women and children were among the dead in the blast, which also killed members of a...

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to France and Kuwait from Jan 11 to 15 ahead of a key peace conference on Syrian crisis, the State Department said Wednesday. In Paris, the top US envoy will attend a ministerial meeting of the London 11, a group of countries backing the...

Russia blocked a British-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government attacks on the city of Aleppo, diplomats said. It was the second time in a month that Russia objected to a western bid to slam President Bashar al-Assad's air assault against Syria's biggest...

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent Syrian main opposition group, National Coalition an invitation to attend the international conference on Syria which will be held in Montreux, west Switzerland on 22 January. Zaman Alwasl has obtaind a copy of the invitation...

  Al Salam Mosque in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh opened its doors and people started to hear Athan after 11 months of siege since the truce between rebels and Assad regime entered into force this week. Rebels of Barzeh have agreed a local ceasefire with the regime...

Activists reported fierce clashes in al-Dana town, the State of Iraq and Levant's  main stronghold in Idlib province. Rebel fighters, who seized ISIL’s HQ in Aleppo today, are looking for more gains by expelling al-Qaeda militants from al-Dana, according to sources....

It was confirmed today that militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have summarily executed three media activists: Qutaiba Abu Yunus, Sultan Al-Shami and Amin Abu Muhammad, who were all members of the Ana Souri Assembly, in Aleppo.  The late...

Britain has accepted 1,500 asylum seekers from Syria in the past year, the Deputy Prime Minister has disclosed. The government has been criticised by politicians including Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, for refusing to admit Syrian refugees to Britain. However,...

The Islamic Front brigades have expelled the militants of the State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) from Al Bab city near Aleppo, Zaman Alwasl source said. ‘’The city is under full control of the IF where the ISIL’s fighters fled to Qabassin village,’’ source said.  ...

More than 300 prisoners in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s chambers have been escaped while 70 other prisoners have been killed in ISIL’s main headquarters in Kadi Askar in Aleppo.  The tragic massacre has been committed few hours before Syrian rebel...

  The headquarters of al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in the main northern city of Aleppo has been seized by fighters from several Syrian rebel brigades. “Fighters from several Islamist rebel brigades took control of the...

Former Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, who defected in July 2012 from Bashar al-Assad's government, and NC former secretary general, Mustafa Al-Sabbagh have resigned from the National Coalition, Zaman Alwasl reporter said.   NC newly re-elected president Ahmad...

Four rebel factions remain in Yarmouk in violation of an agreement to secure peace for the beleaguered Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, a PLO official said Tuesday, according to Ma'an News Agency. PLO executive committee member Ahmad Majdalani told Ma'an News that four...

  Al-Qaeda group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Tuesday urged its fighters to “crush” other rebel groups in Syria, in an audio message from the group’s spokesman. Abu Mohammad al-Adnani called on ISIL fighters in Syria to “crush them...

Bashar al-Assad's forces launched an airstrike on a civilian neighborhood on Tuesday, killing dozens of people. Photos by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters