Amid news of Assad’s advances in al-Nabk, one of the last rebel-held areas in Qalamoun, activists reported a mounting presence of Iraqi Shi’ite militias for the first time in battlefields far away from the Shiite shrines. Thu al-Faqar...
Assad government has planned to provide a petition to the international community saying; ‘’Yes for New Presidential Period for Bashar al-Assad in 2014,’’ sources revealed. Syrian employees have no escape from signing the petition under threat of termination, activists said....
The conflict in Syria today reaches another grim milestone. It started with a day of violence 1,000 days ago, it has grown into a war on childhood that has been characterised by more grim milestones than any other in recent history. Over 1,000,000 children have...
An Iraqi freelance cameraman killed in Syria was buried in his hometown city of Fallujah west of Baghdad, with hundreds of fellow journalists attending the ceremony. Yasser Faysal al-Joumaili was executed by an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria and is the first foreign journalist killed by...
The Lebanese Communication Group, parent of the Lebanese Shiite party Hezbollah’s Al Manar Channel and Al Nour Radio, has officially apologised to Bahrain’s Information Affairs Authority (IAA) for its past coverage of the country, Bahrain News Agency (BNA) has reported. The...
Twitter is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet. U2opia Mobile, which has a similar tie-up with Facebook, will launch...
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will discuss the details of the Geneva II Conference with U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi in Paris on Sunday. "We will work on establishing a transitional government with executive powers (just) like what the Geneva I...
Syrian regime forces made advances on Sunday in the town of al-Nabk, one of the last rebel-held areas in Qalamoun region bordering Lebanon, a watchdog said. “There is fierce fighting in al-Nabk between government forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, and...
A top military commander of Hezbollah, which is helping Syrian troops battle rebels, died in fighting Sunday in Syria, a Lebanese security source said. “Ali Bazzi, a high-ranking Hezbollah military commander, was killed today in a combat zone,” the source said without...
The Joint Chiefs of Staff for Free Syrian Army in a statement denied the claims of attacking its depots on Friday near Turkish borders by al-Qaeda and the Islamic Front. The Statement said the Chiefs asked the assistance of the Islamic groups when...
The Syrian crisis and the Iranian nuclear accord will take the center stage in discussions Tuesday among the heads of government of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council in Kuwait. The topic of peace between Israel and Palestine will also be on the agenda besides a plan to form a strong...
Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's local branch in Syria, has sent Al Jazeera exclusive footage of what it said was a drone it shot down while it was flying over Aleppo, saying it was the first operation of its kind for the group. The group said the government of...
When the peaceful uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned bloody more than two and a half years ago, Egypt was a welcome safe haven for fleeing Syrian refugees. The welcome was short lived however when the host nation descended into turmoil of...
More than 70 Saudi clerics in a statement issued recently pledged their allegiance to the Islamic Front calling all Islamic factions in Syria to join newly formed alliance as its chart is distinct and stands on Shariah. IF was formally announced on...
At least 40 bodies of men, women and children were discovered on Saturday in the Syrian town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb, in an apparent new massacre, the Syrian Revolutionary Council reported, following a heavy shelling campaign by the regime’s army. The opposition...
A deadly attack was launched by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime on the town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb on Friday, according to a statement from the Syrian National Coalition (SNC). In the statement, the SNC called on countries of the “free world” to...
Two teenaged Norwegian sisters who ran away from home in October, saying they wanted to help rebels in Syria, are indeed in the war-wracked country, a lawyer for their family confirmed Thursday. The youngest, aged 16, is injured and has to be treated before she and...
Syrian Regime authorities freed Friday Dr. Nael a-hariri, member of the opposition Building Syrian State Movement after 5 days of detention, according to Zaman Alwasl source. The member of the interior opposition movement was arrested by the air force intelligence in...
" Officials from organizations with health-related missions in Syria called Friday for the protection of medical facilities and personnel there. A joint statement by UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the U.N.'s humanitarian operations “strongly condemned” attacks...
An appeals court in Egypt on Saturday ordered 14 women jailed after a protest to be freed, reducing 11-year prison terms to a one-year suspended sentence. The women's supporters in the Alexandria courtroom chanted "God is great" as the judge...
