Egypt said Tuesday it has granted three-month residence permits to 171 out of a total of 206 Syrian and Palestinian immigrants who were detained for illegally entering the country. Foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said the Syrians and Palestinians had entered Egyptian waters...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have killed some 2,900 people "with knives," the opposition National Coalition said in a new report Tuesday. The publication, timed to coincide with International Human Rights Day, accuses Syrian government forces of carrying out "at least 20...

NATO member Croatia may allow the use of its Adriatic ports to load Syria's deadly chemicals onto a U.S. ship for destruction offshore, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday. "It is envisaged that they will be destroyed, probably in the Atlantic, under supervision of the U.S....

Syria's army Tuesday turned its sights on the town of Yabrud, the last rebel stronghold in the strategic Qalamoun region near Lebanon's border, as it moved to open a key highway to Damascus. The town is believed to be where a group of nuns from the historic Christian hamlet of Maalula...

Syria's Islamic Front has controlled Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey today, promising better services and more secure condition, IF  source told to Zaman Alwasl .   On 19 July 2012, the Free Syrian Army seized the border and defaced images of Bashar al-Assad...

  Razan Zaitouneh, a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who went into hiding for her widely publicized work on atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, has been kidnapped in a rebel-held town, activists said on Tuesday. Zaitouneh is a key figure in the...

Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel reaffirmed US military ties with Qatar on Tuesday, during a regional tour aimed at shoring up Gulf alliances amid disagreements over policy on Iran and Syria. Hagel met Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and his minister of state for defence, Major...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern over the targeting of people based on their religion, community or ethnic affiliation in Syria, after a group of nuns went missing from the town of Maaloula. Ban, in a statement released Monday, said he "remains deeply troubled by the...

A radical group linked to Al-Qaeda kidnapped two Spanish journalists in Syria in September, El Mundo newspaper reported on Tuesday. El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, a freelance photographer, were seized on September 16 in Raqqa province, the Spanish...

Lebanese authorities are mobilising to help Syrian refugees living in makeshift camps ahead of a winter storm expected to bring snow and heavy rain, the social affairs minister said Monday. "The ministry, in cooperation with UNHCR and all our partners, has mobilised to do what's...

The Palestinian Hamas movement has "resumed" relations with Iran after a temporary falling out over the Syrian conflict, a senior member of the Islamist movement said Monday. "Relations between Hamas and Iran have resumed," Mahmud al-Zahar told reporters at a news conference in Gaza,...

    The head of the Syrian National Coalition will attend Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Kuwait, Zaman Alwasl source said. Mr. Ahmed Jarba has been invited by GCC leaders to the summit which took place in Kuwaiti on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the...

  A group of Al Jazeera correspondents, Arab leading Satellite Channel, launched an initiative to build 500 rooms near the Turkish borders to host 3000 Syrian refugees at least, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. The ‘generous initiative’ led by the veteran Syrian journalist and...

At least 7 detainees have been killed and 10 others have been wounded Monday in the embattled Aleppo Central Prison by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, activists reported. The intense battles, taking place in close vicinity to the prison and within its outskirts, continue...

With its decades-old US alliance strained over the Syria war and a nuclear deal with Iran, Saudi Arabia is calling on the Gulf monarchies to unite for their own self-defence. US Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel has assured Gulf states that the agreement struck between major powers and...

It will be "difficult" to remove all of Syria's most toxic chemical weapons from the country by a Dec. 31 deadline, Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the global chemicals weapon watchdog OPCW said on Monday. But the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has...

The head of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group said on Sunday a thaw in relations between Washington and Tehran could strengthen President Bashar al-Assad's hand in Syria's civil war. Ahmed Jarba said a disbursement of Iranian funds frozen in overseas bank accounts as part...

The road needed to ship chemical weapons out of Syria has been seized by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The Damascus-Homs highway had been blocked for around 20 days, preventing the delivery of fuel to the capital, as troops battled with rebel fighters to secure control of...

  The al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria have started working with crime syndicates and racketeering thugs for kidnappings, arms-smuggling, and widespread looting. Syria’s insurgent militias are becoming ever more enmeshed with organized crime, blurring the line...

The push to immunize all children against polio has been hampered by the ongoing crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. WHO and UNICEF have appealed to all parties to cooperate, including through temporary pauses in hostilities where needed, to allow vaccination campaigns to take place...