Dr. Hussein Suleiman (Abu Rayan), a commander from Ahrar Ashaam, has been killed after he was arrested by ISIL on December, in the town of Makanah in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, Ahrar Al Sham media center reported . Ahrar Al...
A member of a prominent opposition group demanded Monday that the National Coalition leadership resign en masse for its failure to defend Syrians inside the country. The proposal was made by Marwan Hajjo Rifai, a founding member of the Syrian...
Lebanese troops arrested the leader of the al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for a double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Lebanon in November, the defense minister told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. Maged al-Maged, the "emir" of the Abdullah...
Amid a corruption scandal that has called into question the independence of the judiciary in Turkey, President Abdullah Gul is urging his country to respect the rule of law. In a statement marking the new year, Gul noted "a tough year for both our country and the world."...
Jordan takes over the U.N. Security Council presidency on Wednesday, the first day of its two-year stint on a 15-nation body struggling to cope with conflicts in Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere. Jordan will join Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Nigeria...
The Vatican announced Tuesday it would host a workshop early in the new year to brainstorm peaceful solutions to the ongoing civil war in Syria. The Vatican has invited leading figures including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Mohamed...
A story from the town of Adra, 12 miles north of Damascus, capturing the confusion, information & propaganda, and tragedy of Syria’s conflict…. The regime claimed on Sunday that it had evacuated more than 5,000 civilians from Adra, following an insurgent offensive in...
More than 130,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. In a new tally, the group said 130,433 people have been killed since the conflict began in March...
Norwegian and Danish ships waiting to remove Syria's chemical weapons are returning to port in Cyprus, signalling a key deadline will not be met. Bad weather, shifting battle lines and road closures are being blamed for the delay. The international mission is waiting for Syria's...
Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks said Tuesday it had no knowledge of and did not approve a delegation to Syria which met President Bashar al-Assad and included members of Australia’s WikiLeaks Party. The delegation, aimed at showing solidarity with the Syrian people and...
Local sources in Idlib province assured that some armed groups, which claimed operating under Free Syrian Army, had imposed royalties on people, who cross their checkpoints which surround their rural villages of Salkeen and Harem. The bad security conditions pushed many...
A new Syrian opposition bloc seeks to form new body instead of the west-backed National Coalition in their upcoming meeting in Cordoba, the southern city of Spain on January 9 and 10, Special source told Zaman Alwasl. More than 200 participants will attend the conference,...
At least 70 journalists were killed on the job around the world in 2013, including 29 who died covering the civil war in Syria and 10 slain in Iraq, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The dead in Syria included a number of citizen...
Fighting erupted when Iraqi police broke up a Sunni Muslim protest camp in the western Anbar province on Monday, leaving at least 13 people dead, police and medical sources said. The camp has been an irritant to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite Muslim-led government since...
The Lebanese army fired on Syrian aircraft that violated the country's airspace Monday, the first time Lebanon has done so since Syria's uprising broke out nearly three years ago, security officials said. The move suggests Beirut is trying to enforce...
At least 15 Palestinians have died of hunger since September in a besieged refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees told AFP on Monday. "Reports have come in over the weekend that at least five Palestinian refugees in the besieged...
QAMISHLY, Syria, December 30 (UNHCR)- Emergency winter aid airlifted to north-east Syria by the UN refugee agency in the past two weeks is being distributed to more than 50,000 vulnerable people in isolated areas. The UNHCR airlift from Erbil, Turkey, of some 300...
Syria's government said it evacuated 5,000 residents of the town of Adra near the capital Damascus over the weekend, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. "Thanks to the efforts of the Syrian army, the ministry of social affairs evacuated more than 5,000 residents of the town...
In front of me now, as I am writing this piece, are the names of fifteen person who died due to starvation exacerbated by dehydration. Regime forces have, on top of the food blockade, also cut off all water supplies to Yarmouk. The starved were all inhabitants of...
A bomb blast ripped a trolleybus apart in Volgograd on Monday, killing at least 10 people in the second deadly attack in the southern city in two days and raising fears of further violence as Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. The morning rush-hour bombing, which left mangled...
