An initial IDF investigation into Friday's blast that damaged a military vehicle in the Syrian occupied Golan Heights found that ‘’an explosive device planted on the Syrian side of the border had been detonated by terrorists,’’ according to the Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post....

Militants of The State of Iraq and The Levant captured Friday a military base affiliated to Free Syrian Army in Babska village in Idlib province, Zaman Alwasl source said. The Islamic Moment of Ahrar al-Sham has protected FSA officers who escaped death, as well it has...

Syrian Opposition activists have sparkled major outrage via social media after circulating photos for an old man has been murdered by Iraqi militants in the town of al-Nabk, 68 km (40 miles) northeast of Damascus. Munir Abdul al-Hai (pictured), a man in his sixties has...

A group of nuns from the historic Christian town of Maalula in Syria denied they were kidnapped by rebels, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera news channel on Friday. The brief video shows the women, apparently in good health and comfortable, dressed in black religious garb in a room....

The 193-member U.N. General Assembly elected Jordan to the U.N. Security Council on Friday to replace Saudi Arabia, which rejected its two-year term in protest at the council's failure to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues. Saudi Arabia was elected in October to...

  Syrian opposition activists on Thursday accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of again using poison gas in rebel-held areas, saying victims had been discovered with swollen limbs and foaming at the mouth. The activists told Reuters that two shells loaded with...

  Syrian President Bashar Assad, two and a half years into a blood-soaked rebellion against his rule, mourned Nelson Mandela's death on Friday, calling his life an inspiration for freedom fighters and a lesson to tyrants. Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died...

Germany says it will take in a further 5,000 refugees from Syria, doubling its current offer of shelter for people fleeing the Arab nation's civil war. The decision was announced Friday at a meeting of officials from Germany's 16 states, which share responsibility for housing...

The checkpoints of Shi’ite Militias have become remarkably widespread in regime-held areas of Aleppo amid decreasing for presence of Assad's forces, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. They wear black costumes with green and red bands, inscribed with sectarian slogans, their most...

  A car bomb detonated Friday morning in the Kurdish-populated northern Syrian town of Qamishli. The suicide bombing left at least 6 people dead and 10 others injured, Al-Mayadeen network reported. Meanwhile, Russia Today said that the car bomb hit near a...

Hezbollah senior commander has been died of his wounds in Qalamoun battles, ‘’not gunned down outside his home in southern Beirut,’’ Qalamoun Media Center said.  ''Hezbollah  deliberately  hides the truth to keep its fighters’ morale high,'' the center say....

The founder of Free Syrian Army denounced to Zaman Alwasl the rumors of being kidnapped or pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda affiliates.  ‘’I have not been kidnapped in Turkey as well I have not pledged allegiance to State of Iraq and The Levant,’’ Colonel Riad al-Asaad...

Suhair Atassi is a hard stone, can not be shifted, activists said after keeping her post as president of the controversial Aid Coordination Unit. ‘’As regime as opposition,’’ others said, in reference to the mentality of some opposition figures. Atassi posted online that...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at age 95 of complications from a recurring lung infection. The anti-apartheid leader and Nobel laureate was a beloved figure around the world, a symbol of reconciliation from a country with a brutal history of racism. Mandela...

    The U.S. plans to begin sea trials by the end of the month of a merchant marine ship with special equipment on board that can destroy much of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, according to a U.S. Defense Department official who briefed reporters....

     Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah accused Bashar al-Assad's regime of committing "systematic crimes" against people in Syria. Al-Attiyah also blamed the international community for not putting an immediate end to the daily...

Desperate civilians in a swathe of Syria from Aleppo in the north to the southern border are largely out of reach of aid workers, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday. Throughout the country, the wounded are often denied medical treatment by either...

Syrians called it the "bride of the revolution". The eastern city of Raqqa was swept by celebrations after residents woke up one morning in March to see the last batch of forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad leaving. Believing a new era of freedom had arrived, they promised to...

Armed with machine guns, black-clad al Qaeda fighters drove their pick-ups calmly into the northern Syrian town and took over its imposing agriculture ministry building. They beheaded a sniper from a rival rebel unit, displayed his head in the main square and put roadblocks on major...

Facebook activists have circulated a photo of a three years old girl from Homs, called Ritaj Yusuf al-Khalid, who got lost from her father in Greece on 11/11/2013 when they were caught by the coast guards. The girl carried on her journey to Sweden with a lady from Aleppo...