The United States sought on Friday to persuade the Syrian opposition to agree to attend international peace talks in Geneva, a day before President Bashar al-Assad's opponents gather to decide on the issue, opposition sources said.   U.S. envoy Robert...

  Turkish riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of demonstrators who were protesting Thursday over the building of a controversial wall on the border with Syria, witnesses said.   Police took action to disperse a large crowd of people who...

  Syrian troops have recaptured parts of a military base seized by rebels earlier this year in a fierce fighting near Aleppo international airport, activists say. Heavy fighting erupted in the early hours of Friday around Base 80 outside Syria’s main northern city....

Albania confirmed on Thursday that the United States has demanded to dismantle Syria’s chemical arsenal on its soil, amid protests in the capital rejecting any plans of such. “We were contacted by the United States, but no decision has been made yet,” Agence France-Presse quoted...

  The leader of al-Qaeda has ordered the re-organization of jihadist efforts in Syria and Iraq by abolishing the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) and giving the Nusra Front sole responsibility for activities in war-torn Syria.   In an audio tape...

  Once upon a time this country was safe; by these few words the polish city of Lublin exhibits photos from the war-torn country in the municipality hall. Ali Mahfouz, University student, lives in the most tourist city in Poland has posted a photo in his Instagram...

  7 Rebel groups announced in video statement the establishment of a command room to launch the battle of al Badiya (Desert) in north Syria. The main goal according to the fighting groups is to cut the logistic supplies of Bashar al-Assad. More than 120,000...

  Troops backed by Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters and other pro-regime militiamen on Thursday retook Sbeineh, a major rebel enclave south of Damascus, a monitoring group and state television said.   "Sbeineh was one of the most important...

  Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria has adopted the car bomb which killed at least eight security personnel on Wednesday in an attack on a military intelligence building in the southern Syrian city of Suweida, which has been largely peaceful during the Syrian civil war....

The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant captured the main power zone in Aleppo, killing more than 20 soldiers of Basher al-Assad troops, reliable source confirmed to Zaman Alwasl. In response, Assad's warplanes waged violent raids on the zone what may damage the power...

Assad forces are trying to commit more massacres in the Central Prison of Aleppo by shelling the detainees' chambers where a state of rebellion is prevailed within the political prisoners, according to prominent activist.   Yet, one prisoner has been killed...

  Haytham Manna, the head of overseas department in the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), denied meeting Rifaat al-Assad in Geneva on Wednesday. He has expressed his surprise of that rumors, as he is a human right activist, and a member of Arab...

A car bomb killed at least eight security personnel on Wednesday in an attack on a military intelligence building in the southern Syrian city of Suweida, which has been largely peaceful during the Syrian civil war.  “A suicide attacker detonated himself in a car bomb in front of the...

The revolutionary military council in Aleppo, has chosen the colonel Abdul Salam Hamidi as an interim head for the council in Aleppo, after Abdul Jabbar al-Qaidi resignation. Oaidi announced his resignation on Sunday as a protest against letting down the Syrian people by the...

The chairman of Joint Chiefs of Rebels Staff denounces the claims of being America's Man or even being backed by the United States, assuring that his is a proud of being only Syrian. ''I am doing my best to support the rebels on the battle ground,'' Gen. Salim Idriss stated...

We have, in the first part of this report, presented the theory that Syrian opposition accept the most, which assumes Syrian regime and the Syrian-Iranian allies support and finance Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” and uses it as a Trojan Horse to defeat the revolution...

  World powers failed Tuesday to set a date for a long-delayed Syria peace conference, as deep divisions persisted between rival camps over the conditions for their participation. "We were hoping that we'd be in a position to announce a date today, unfortunately we're not," UN-Arab...

Deep in the desert and far from his former base of power, ousted President Mohammed Morsi is being held in a sprawling penitentiary that is notorious as one of Egypt's highest-security prisons. The move appears aimed not only at isolating him from other Muslim Brotherhood leaders who...

 Russian representatives and members of the Syrian opposition are set to meet in Geneva Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Russian media. "We will hold a whole series of contacts with the Syrian opposition," he was quoted as saying late Tuesday by the Interfax...

A Kurdish mayor on hunger strike in Turkey to protest the building of a barrier on the border with Syria accused Ankara on Tuesday of putting up a "wall of shame". Ayse Gokkan of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (BDP), who has been on hunger strike for seven days, says the wall...