Syrian Kurds in the northeast have formed a transitional autonomous government, they said in a statement Tuesday, after making key territorial gains against jihadists in recent weeks. The latest declaration comes amid a general strengthening of Kurdish...

Saudi Arabia decided to support the transitional Government of the national Coalition with a fund of $300 Million. Syria's key opposition National coalition voted for nine nominees of the interim government chairs, which was headed by the PM Ahmad Tomeh yesterday in...

  It was reported to Zaman Alwasl that 3 nominee ministers in the Interim government have failed to reach to the required number of votes, therefore, the Coalition has decided to assign the Ministry of Health to the Interim Prime Minster, Ahmad To'ma, and the Ministry of Education...

Rana Obaid began her life less than two years ago in a comfortable house draped with roses, the daughter of a grocer locally famous for his rich homemade yogurt. But war and siege brought hunger so quickly to their town near Damascus that when she died in September, at 19 months, her arms...

Syria's key opposition National coalition voted No for three nominees of the interim government chairs which was proposed by the PM Ahmad Toumeh yesterday in Istanbul, Zaman Alwasl source said. The minimum votes to win was 62, the results as following:...

Amid the increasing gains of Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Aleppo, 6 rebel groups called for an immediate mobilization including al-Qaeda affiliate jabhat al-Nausra and Ahrar al-Sham movement. In a statement issued yesterday the fighting groups urged all rebels to unified under one...

  Syrian regime forces have regained control of a brigade in the opposition stronghold of Aleppo after days of fighting, an opposition source said Monday. Salih Anadani, media liaison for the al-Tawhid Brigade armed opposition group, said Syrian leader Bashar...

A video report was surfaced on the net showed the great and wide damage caused by the incinerators, which widely spread in Eastern regions of Syria. Those incinerators used to refine petrolum, which are considered an old and dangerous method of refining petroleum.   Fadi...

Activists have published pictures of a long wall in Homs, near the water store in al-Zahra, the neighbourhood of Alawite majority, at the junction between Arman and East Cornish neighbourhoods. On that wall, pictures of hundreds of soldiers and members of National Defence Forces...

Arguments over attending Geneva II have reached the physical engagement between the main opposition group members in Syria, according to Zaman Alwasl source. Mr. Ahmed Jarba, Coalition leader slapped Mr. Louai al-Mukdad, the representative of the Free Syrian Army in the...

  Following a report earlier this month in the British newspaper The Times claiming Hizbollah was withdrawing significant forces from  Syria , there was buzz on social media that this could be the beginning of a broader pullout or even a sign of defeat for Lebanon’s...

The case against a doctor accused of kidnapping a British photographer and his Dutch colleague in Syria last year Twas dropped at a London court on Monday. Shajul Islam was due to stand trial alongside co-accused Jubair Chowdhury and his own brother Najul Islam, who was charged with...

Saudi King Abdullah has received a telephone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the latest regional and international issues, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday. “During the telephone conversation, they reviewed bilateral relations between the...

 As the latest jihadist-Kurdish military showdown eases in northeast Syria, Baghdad is keeping a close watch on a battle which threatens even greater instability in Iraq. Kurdish forces and Al-Qaeda-linked groups have for weeks fought over territory, with the Kurds taking over a...

The total cost of Syria's almost three-year-long conflict reached 103.1 billion dollars in the first half of 2013, the United Nations said on Thursday. The devastating civil war has almost completely halted industrial activity in Syria, said a senior official from the...

At least two people were killed in a mortar attack on a church and a Christian school in the Syrian capital Damascus, activists said on Monday. The two shells were fired on the city's al-Qasssaa quarter and struck the Church of the Cross and St John's school, activists from...

  Syria  should immediately stop using incendiary weapons, Human Rights Watch said today in a  report  which documents at least 56 attacks using the weapons since November 2012. Human Rights Watch will present its concerns at the annual meeting of the Convention on...

Tension between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the biggest threat to world security, Iran's foreign minister has said. Mohammad Javad Zarif told the BBC in comments published on Monday, "I think we need to come to understand that a sectarian divide in the Islamic world is a...

The Syrian National Coalition agreed on Monday to participate in peace talks in Geneva which are aimed at bringing together the opposition and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to create a transition government and end Syria’s two-year conflict But the Syrian oppostion’s...

With a string of military gains across northeastern  Syria , a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn country, posing a dilemma for regional powers. Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Kurds...