Miscalculations by the Syrian regime, opposition groups and U.S. government left them all unprepared for the Aug. 21 gas attack As Syrian troops battled rebel forces in the Damascus suburbs Aug. 18, U.S. eavesdropping equipment began picking up ominous signals. A special Syrian...

The Military commander of ‘Green Battalion, al-Qaeda affiliated has been killed in Qalamoun battles near Damascus, sources said. Abu Muhjin al-Omani, originally for Oman Sultanate was killed during the storming of Bassel hospital in Deir Attiyeh. Rebels...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) arrested Mustafa Abdullah, commander of Sokour al-Islam brigades (Islam's Hawks) in Atimah, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. The ISIL took control of the town of Atimah on the border with Turkey at the end of last...

Hezbollah officially announced killing of commander Ali Iskander in Ghouta, eastern suburbs of Syria’s capital. Pro-Assad activists accused Hezbollah of treason on Sunday due to the disobedience of Syrian Army orders what cost large number of causalities within regular...

  In a video statement posted on the Internet, rebels of Aleppo said that remarkable gains have been achieved in the southern countryside of the embattled city. 13 villages have become under the Islamic rebels control, activists said. The Islamic...

Two Syrian doctors made a successful surgical operation by re-planting a child's palm that was mostly amputated in Bab al-Hawa Hospital near the Turkish borders. Dr. Joma’a Abi Ras and Dr. Mohamed Al-Jawwash have achieved a very critical surgery when an 8-year-old child...

The Syrian market suffers a remarkable shortage in some kinds of drugs as most pharmaceutical laboratories in northern Syria are out of service. The Minister of Health Saad Naif told local media that 72 kinds of medicines are missing from the market given the economic sanctions on the...

As the boom of shelling resounded along Turkey’s border with Syria here on a recent afternoon, Zakaria Deeb had nowhere left to run. He had traveled 100 miles to Kilis with his family, chasing a false rumor that refugees would be allowed into a Turkish-run camp in the city, about...

Representatives from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affair in Amman have met journalists working in Syria al-Shaab Satellite Channel to inform them of shutting down the channel, besides forcing them to write a pledge to stop working. Many other channels, Syrian or...

A meeting of UN, US and Russian envoys on Monday is expected to agree that a Syria peace conference should be held in January, diplomats said. UN leader Ban Ki-moon is to announce the date shortly after the meeting in Geneva, the envoys said. The conference on the worsening...

    Denmark’s security service said Sunday it suspects around 80 people have travelled from Denmark to Syria to join the civil war since mid-2012.   In a report, the service known as PET said those who travel to Syria are mainly Sunni Muslim men...

Pro-Assad activists have accused Hezbollah of treason Sunday due to the disobedience of Syrian Army orders what cost large number of causalities within regular army   in eastern Damascus suburbs . Assad’s Servant, well-known facebook page loyal to Bashar al-Assad, said...

More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says. The...

Hezbollah is the party to blame for the infiltration of terrorism into Lebanon, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri said in an article published Sunday, as he reiterated his condemnation of Hezbollah’s intervention in the Syrian crisis. “No matter what excuses Hezbollah uses to justify...

Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda main branch in Syria, issued a circular, warning its jihadists of moving or touring without an escort of local fighters over kidnapping 7 foreign jihadists in Raqqa, east Syria so far, field sources told Zaman Alwasl. The Islamic Movement of Ahrar...

Fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said on Sunday. It began on Friday when rebel units attacked a string of...

Egypt said on Saturday it was expelling Turkey's ambassador and accused Ankara of backing organisations bent on undermining the country - an apparent reference to the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, himself a...

  Syria's regime hailed the "historic" nuclear deal between its ally Iran and world powers Sunday as proof that negotiations rather than military action were the best way to resolve crises. Syria "considers it to be a historic accord which guarantees the interests of the brotherly...

Iran's nuclear deal with global powers was met with wary silence from Arab states on Sunday, with Iran's only two Arab friends Iraq and Syria welcoming the accord but others keeping their opinions to themselves. All Arab countries apart from Syria and Iraq are ruled by Sunni Muslims...

Syrian revolutionary activists assured killing of the prominent war reporter Mohamed al-Saeed in Damascus countryside with three other citizen journalists by Shiite forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad. Ammar Tabajo,who used the alias Mohammed Saeed had been provided information to many...