An al Qaeda affiliate has captured a northern Syrian town on the border with Turkey after ousting a moderate Islamist rebel unit and detained its leader, activists said on Thursday. The fall of the town of Atma, a crossing point for weapons and for Syrian rebels, signals disarray among...
The world's chemical watchdog solicited private companies on Thursday to help with the destruction of around two-thirds of Syria's vast stock of chemical weapons, as options dwindle ahead of a tight deadline to complete the task. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons...
Fighting for a key military base outside Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 pro-regime militiamen on Thursday, a monitoring group said. "Fifteen members of the National Defence Forces were killed in fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,...
An Al-Qaeda front group fighting in Iraq and Syria has called for jihadist groups to join forces under its banner, according to an audio message posted Thursday on the Internet. In remarks purportedly made by Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the Islamic State of Iraq and...
Saudi Arabia has asked its citizens to leave Lebanon due to the risk of political violence in the country, where twin suicide bombings near Iran's embassy in Beirut killed 25 people this week. Riyadh has issued several similar calls in the past two years as the...
Syria’s rebels blew up a vehicle transporting a number of Jordanian intellectuals, writers and journalists in Daraa countryside Thursday who were on a visit to Syria, wounding five,’’ State-run news agency SANA reported. Rebels have remotely detonated an explosive device...
Six mortar shells landed near a remote Saudi border post close to neighbouring fellow oil producers Iraq and Kuwait on Wednesday, but caused no damage, the kingdom said on Thursday. The shells hit desert on the far northwestern fringes of the kingdom’s oil producing region...
Wamar Medical Services in Oman Sultanate granted 25 scholarships for the Syrian Students, a coalition source told Zaman Alwasl. Students who are interested in nursing profession can apply through the key opposition group, National Coalition which will be...
Activists have circulated photos on the Internet for Tawhid brigade commander which considered the first images appeared since his assassination . The key rebel Islamic movement was denounced any doubts or qualms over the death ...
A report by human rights watch presented unbelievable conditions of prisoner in Sednaya prison. The report mentioned that number of prisoners reached to 14 thousands prisoners, most of them went through sham trial before a field military court and they have receive sentences of...
Syria’s over 1,000 tonnes of chemical weapons and precursors could be destroyed at sea if no country agrees to dispose of them on its soil, the world’s chemical watchdog said Wednesday. “This possibility has been looked at for some time already,” Organization for the...
The U.N. General Assembly’s human right committee approved on Tuesday a Saudi draft resolution demanding immediate humanitarian access to Syrians trapped in the country’s civil war. The draft resolution passed by the General Assembly’s Third Committee also demanded...
Leader of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) did not meet at all Dr. Riad Hijab, Defected Syrian Prime Minister, he said in a reply to rumors spread on regime’s websites to Zaman Alwasl. More rumours said that Mr. Saleh Muslim met Refaat al-Assad, Uncle of Bashar...
A wave of attacks, most of them car bombs targeting Shiite neighborhoods, rocked Baghdad early on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people in the latest bout of bloodshed to rock Iraq. The violence, which left 65 others wounded, comes amid a...
Source from al-Tawhid Brigade has rejected any attempt to suspect the leader Abdul Qader Saleh’s death. The source has confirmed that he was killed by shelling on the infantry school in Aleppo, and reported that al-Tawhid brigade is going to distribute photos of his...
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured on Wednesday Dweirina village next to the International Aleppo Airport, Zaman Alwasl source said. The regime forces have entered the s trategic village without any r esistance where the...
Algerian authorities say 12 people have died and 240 were injured during celebrations for Algeria's 1-0 victory over Burkina Faso that sent the country's team to the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil. A government statement Wednesday said that five celebrating fans were killed when...
Assad Security forces have arrested the Secretary General of the National Co-ordination Body for Democratic Change in Damascus Wednesday, president of the Co-ordination said. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Haytham Manna, France-based external head of the...
A prominent advocate for Syrian detainess said that the Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush ''is still alive, not executed.'' Artist Yara Sabri quoted a former detainee who had been released recently as saying the revolution's icon and the first Syrian Army defector is arrested in...
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani held a private meeting with the Syrian opposition leader Ahmed Jarba yesterday in Doha, a Coalition source told Zaman Alwasl. National Coalition president have discussed the recent developments on the...
