One Syrian was killed and nine others were injured on Thursday when mortar fire struck the Russian embassy in Damascus, the foreign ministry said in a statement. It added that no Russian nationals were hurt in the attack by suspected rebels and that the building suffered...
A nephew of Lebanon's agriculture minister has been killed along with three other Hezbollah fighters in Syria's Qalamoun region, a source close to the Shiite movement said on Thursday. "Ali Rida Fuad Hajj Hassan, aged 22, was killed along with three...
Since 2011, large numbers of European Muslims have gone to Syria to fight with the rebels. But exactly how many are they, and which countries are providing most of the fighters? The question matters because some of these foreign fighters may return to perpetrate attacks in the West, and Western...
Dramatic video appears to capture the moment a shell lands near a group of children on the outskirts of Damascus. Despite the proximity of the explosion all the children survive and are seen later in the video smiling and talking about the near miss. It is estimated over 7,000...
Destroying Syria’s deadliest chemical weapons on land would come with vexing diplomatic and security problems as well as environmental issues. To avoid those potential troubles, U.S. officials say, the Obama administration is exploring the use of a government-owned ship to carry out the...
Syrian peace talks planned for January must put in place a timeframe for a transitional government and should not involve any opposition group other than the National Coalition, Gulf Arab foreign ministers said. In a statement issued on Wednesday after they met in Kuwait,...
Al-Qaeda affiliates have involved in internal skirmishes over merits in Raqqa city, east Syria. Field sources said that The State of Iraq and The Levant and its rival Jabhat al-Nusra went through in-between clashes this week over a building to make it a military...
A draft for a project to establish a “Women’s Committee” within the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces has been drafted. Zman Alwasl has obtained a copy of that draft, which has been signed by 19 members of the coalition, including the...
Sheikh Zahran Alloush, leader of key armed opposition group in Syria, tweeted on his official account that the road to break Ghouta's siege is very close. Islam Army, with 50 fighting groups operate under its command, has lost 65 jihadist during the liberation...
A Scud missile stormed al-Raqqa city east Syria, killing 35 people at least and wounding dozens, activists said. The long-range and destructive missile was fired from '3rd Division', Assad's Scud big arsenal in Qalamoun Hill. UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
A member of the Syrian opposition coalition has warned the Syrian community in the Gulf countries against sending money to armed fighters in Syria. He also appealed to Syrians living abroad to increase humanitarian aid for the Syrian refugees within Syria, who are bracing themselves...
The Syrian National Coalition opposition group will attend the "Geneva 2" talks in January aimed at resolving the civil war, its president, Ahmad Jarba, said on Wednesday. In an interview with Reuters and the Associated Press, he also said regional power Iran should only be...
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz received a phone call on Wednesday from U.S. President Barack Obama during which the two leaders discussed bilateral ties and regional issues, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The phone conversation came days after the United States...
An Al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Syria has announced the execution of two soldiers and three "collaborators" with President Bashar al-Assad's regime near Damascus, according to a statement published on jihadist sites. The Al-Nusra Front also published a photograph showing...
Protesters set fire to the office of Tunisia’s Islamist ruling party Ennahda in the city of Siliana as demonstrations erupted nationwide against tough economic conditions. General strikes were called in the northwestern city of Siliana, Gafsa and in Gabes, which is along...
Dubai has won in its bid for the World Expo 2020. In the third and final round Dubai received 116 votes of a possible 132. It got through to the final round of voting with 87 votes - that's 52%, after Izmir, Turkey was eliminated with just 36 votes, Russia...
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has freed Mustafa Abdullah, commander of Sokour al-Islam brigades (Islam's Hawks) in Atimah after six days of detention, special sources told Zaman Alwasl. The ISIL took control of the town of Atimah on the border with Turkey...
Syrian authorities will attend talks in January aimed at resolving the civil war but will not succumb to Western demands for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, a Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday. It was the first formal response from Damascus to this week's...
Women refugees who escaped Syria's conflict to find sanctuary in neighbouring Lebanon have been sexually harassed by employers, landlords and an employee of a local aid group, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The organisation said it interviewed a dozen women who described being...
Attacks in Iraq, including suicide bombings against police and the killing of a family, left 11 people dead Wednesday, part of a surge in violence authorities have struggled to stem. The bloodshed, which has left nearly 6,000 people dead so far this year in the worst violence to hit...
