Burak Karan had a bright future as a professional soccer player in Germany and even played for the national team's youth side. But he ended his career at 20 and joined radical Islamists. He was killed in Syria in October.   Burak Karan's first life ended on March...

The four small Syrian children and their father who drowned on Friday had been rescued only five days before from another boat off the coast of Kefalonia. They were fleeing the Syrian war, which had claimed the life of their mother, for a better future in Europe A doctor has...

‘’Our martyr Abdul-Qader Saleh was buried in his hometown, Mare’a, two days ago; no funeral ceremony to take place today in Aleppo,’’ Tawhid brigades’ source told Zaman Alwasl.  The prominent military commander died of his wounds in Turkish hospital after 2 days of...

Diab Seriyeh, the former prisoner, has appealed to help in saving life of Ahmad al-Mahmood, who has been in coma for three days. The appeal mentioned that he has been suffering of back pain because Prolapsed Disc and not able to move, which cause extreme health and weight deterioration...

Tawhid Brigade's head, Abdul-Qader Saleh, has been died of his wounds in Turkish hospital after 2 days of being attacked by Assad airstrike with top rebel leaders, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. A coalition member spoke to Zaman Alwasl on condition of anonymity...

A s Druze warlord Walid Jumblatt   served   a sumptuous dinner to a gathering of Lebanese notables here, the talk around the table  was about who  would fill the power vacuum in the region if America reaches a nuclear deal with Iran — and accelerates what’s...

Mass destruction for Assad's military headquarters in Harasta, Damascus suburb  by huge bomb attack  today, killing 31 of regime soldiers including top general, Syrian  Observatory for  Human Rights  reported. Footage has surfaced on the internet...

Al-Wa’er neighborhood in Homs has been under fierce siege by the regime forces, after the siege on old Homs, Joret Al-Shayah and al-Qarabis neighborhoods. Activists confirmed to Zaman Alwasl that more than half a million people suffer from severe scarcity of food where...

A Syrian government delegation is due to meet officials in Moscow on Monday to discuss an international peace conference that Russia, the U.S. and the United Nations are trying to convene, a Russian diplomatic source said. Russia...

Abduction series to be continued in Aleppo after kidnapping journalist Ahmed Brimo by an armed group affiliated to al-Qaeda today, local activists told Zaman Alwasl. Human rights watchdogs say that the bigger fear for Syrian Journalists comes from abductions, which have...

Historically bitter relations between Syria and Israel have been bypassed by the civil conflict as a wave of injured Syrians get urgent medical help from Israelis. The two countries remain technically at war (Israel is frequently demonised as "Zionist Imperialism" by the Ba'ath...

  ‘’Traffic emir ,’’  is a new position in one of the emirates of Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant, al-Qaeda-affiliated group, who controls the traffic movement in Raqqa with tens of Staff wearing a unified costumes completely black, local sources said to Zaman Alwasl....

    Iran has launched an “organized invasion” of the suburban areas of the capital Damascus, the Syrian opposition Defense Minister Asaad Mustafa told Al Arabiya News Channel on Saturday.   Mustafa said the suburb of Ghouta - where a chemical weapons attack...

  A senior Hezbollah commander died on Saturday after he was wounded in Syria several days ago, a pro-Hezbollah website reported. “The Islamic resistance in Hezbollah proudly weds a new Knight...Ali Shabeeb (Abu Trab al-Rweis) who died as he was performing his sacred...

  Four men aged between 22 and 35 have been arrested in the Paris region for allegedly belonging to a jihadist network sending fighters to Syria, informed sources said Friday. The arrests by investigators from France's intelligence agency DCRI took place on Tuesday...

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have firmly seized the momentum in the country's civil war in recent weeks, capturing one rebel stronghold after another and triumphantly planting the two-starred Syrian government flag amid shattered buildings and rubble-strewn streets....

Rebel groups have destroyed 3 Helicopters and depots of fuel and munitions in al-Nayrab Military air and al-Tabqa air base. In footage posted by activists on the internet showed a huge smoke in the airport sky said to be result of Liwa’a al-Tawhid missiles which had...

The visit Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, will pay on Saturday to Diyarbakir with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is being debated in the media.   The arguments made are miles away from explaining the...

Rebel groups in Aleppo have destroyed two Helicopters and  depots of fuel and munitions   in al-Nayrab Military air.  In footage posted by activists on the internet showed a huge smoke in the airport sky said to be result of Liwa’a al-Tawhid missiles which...

 violence against Christian minorities is now a "global crisis" as worshippers are driven out of their ancient homelands by militants, a senior minister warns Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a...