The United States, Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia and others held secret and informal discussions on Thursday to devise a strategy for improving the U.N.'s stalled relief effort in Syria, according to diplomatic sources familiar with the effort. The meeting -- which was held at the...
Rebel fighters targeted the Homs oil refinery with 4 Grad missiles, causing a fire to break out in the area and the injury of 2 workers, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. In relevant development, parts of the al-Wa'er neighbourhood of Homs were bombarded by...
At least 40 people were killed on Saturday in Syrian regime air strikes on the northern city of Aleppo and surrounding areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syria's second city and onetime commercial hub has seen intense fighting for more than a year...
'The U.S. has to have a foreign policy. Well-defined, well-structured. You don't have it right now, unfortunately. It's just complete chaos. Confusion. No policy. I mean, we feel it. We sense it, you know." Members of the Saudi royal family have voiced their displeasure with the...
Syria's most senior army defector, General Mustafa al-Sheikh has arrived to Sweden in company with his older son where ‘’they applied for a political Asylum,’’ well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. Al-Sheikh had entered Sweden illegally through a smuggling network,...
Al Qaeda in Aleppo issued fatwa to cut off the heads of opposition coalition members as well heads of Assad's loyalists. Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Masri, the military commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant in al-Bab city near Aleppo said, ‘‘Whoever supports basher...
US, Russian and UN envoys will meet in Geneva on Monday aiming to pin down a date for an international conference on the Syria conflict, a UN spokesperson said Friday. Diplomats say UN leader Ban Ki-moon should announce a date after the Geneva talks for a peace conference...
In Lebanon's Bekaa valley, the sun is still shining. But soon temperatures will dip and snow will blanket fields that house hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Their shelters are little more than wooden frames covered with tarpaulins or, in some cases, plastic sacks sewn...
A Yemeni ‘’Aden Tomorrow" newspaper published a story Friday about a Syrian refugee family has been sleeping in the Sanaa streets for over a month. The 6-person family, an old father with his wife and a teenage daughter and 3 kids have nothing, they made the sidewalk...
U.S. President John F. Kennedy was remembered as a transcendent leader of a rising nation at a ceremony in Dallas on Friday, the 50th anniversary of his assassination. "Our collective hearts were broken," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told a crowd of about 5,000 who came to a frigid Dealey...
A major thunderstorm hit the Gulf region on Thursday night with heavy rain lashing parts of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the Saudi capital Riyadh, which was the scene of major flooding earlier this week. Earlier climate forecasts compelled the...
Rebels in Syria seized a key town Friday in Qalamoun province that has been under army control since the outbreak of the conflict, a monitoring group and the opposition said. Hundreds of rebels now control most of Deir Attiyeh, with the exception of the Bassel hospital and a small...
Assad’s State intelligence arrested deserted officer over charges of smuggling food staples and bread to the rebel-held areas in the embattled Homs that live under sever siege, Zaman Alwasl source said. State-run media, few days ago fabricated reports purporting that no 400...
Dozens of refugees from Syria detained in an Egyptian police station began a hunger strike on Friday to draw attention to their plight, several of them said. The United Nations refugee agency confirmed that 52 refugees of Syrian and Palestinian origin had...
Seven leading Islamist rebel groups in Syria say they are joining forces. A statement posted online said Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Suqour al-Sham, Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Haqq, Ansar al-Sham and the Kurdish Islamic Front had agreed to a "gradual merger". It said the new...
Militants of so-called Nationalism Guards have joined the Syrian conflict according to pro-Assad's social media pages. ‘Nasser News’ facebook page with more than 136 thousand subscribers revealed about "the first Egyptian martyr who passed away in the defence battle for...
Pope Francis on Thursday said the Catholic Church will not accept a Middle East without Christians, who often find themselves forced to flee areas of conflict and unrest in the region. "We will not resign ourselves to imagining a Middle East without Christians," he said after meeting...
Al-Qaeda extremists chops down 150-year-old tree in Syria because people would go to it for blessings. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has chopped down a long-lived tree in Otmeh border area near Turkey over people belief its blessed which is a...
Divisions in rebel ranks and more committed loyalist fighters are helping the Syrian regime notch up military victories that would give it the upper hand at peace talks, analysts and rebels say. The army's capture this week of the strategic town of Qara, north of Damascus, followed...
Bader Jamous, the secretary General of the national coalition declared that national coalition is the only body in the opposition can decide participants in Geneva 2, because it is the only internationally recognized body of the opposition, according to the Arab League’s decision....
