Rebels vs. Al-Qaeda war to be continued according to Khaled Hayyani, Bader Brigade commander who said in a statement issued yesterday in response to the latest assault by al-Qaeda-linked group, the Islamic State of  Iraq and the Levant against his rebel group in Aleppo...

  State-run media accused the UN-Arab Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi of being double faced . Al Thawra newspaper tilted its editorial yesterday ''Brahimi is one eyed,  many tongued,'' saying that  he wanted to please all parties, when his job as a UN Envoy...

Binnish and al-Fu'ah neighboring towns in northwestern Syria witnessed fierce clashes recently over kidnapping 7 farmers from Binnish orchards by Fu'ah militants, Zaman Alwasl reported said . Rebels of the Sunni town in response have bombarded the pro-Assad town,...

A Swedish imam has smuggled large quantities of weapons to rebels in Syria, a crime punishable by up to four years in prison. Sources told Sveriges Radio (SR) that the Syrian-born man was one of the rebels' key weapons suppliers and that he had been bringing arms into the civil...

14 Syrian tribes in Raqqa, east Syria have reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant, al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria . A mere year ago, the same tribes pledged allegiance to Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Hassan, Opinion deputy editor for The...

  Photos posted by pro-al-Qaeda Facebook pages purporting confiscating huge amounts of gold and money by The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after attacking rebel group headquarter in Aleppo province, so-called 'Bader Brigade'. ISIL recently launched big campaign...

  Shariah council in Aleppo, affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant, has sentenced the previous leader of Ghuraba' al-Sham battalion Hassan Jazara to death, after days of detaining him along with dozens of supporters in al-Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo...

   Rebels' concerns have dramatically mounted amid fears of imminent siege for their areas in Aleppo after the fall of Safira town by the Assad army, according to Zaman Alwasl sources. The town of Safira lies on a road the army said would be used to send in...

  A senior army officer and chemical-weapons specialist who defected from Bashar al-Assad’s forces said that Regime's army officials have made a deal with Houthis in Yemen to sell tons of toxic chemical substances for $ 1 billion, according to the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan....

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Egypt on Sunday for the first time since the army toppled the country's first freely elected president on July 3, state news agency MENA said. It said the visit to Egypt, whose alliance with the United States has come under strain, would only...

  Turkey   and   Iran   said on Friday they had common concerns about the increasingly sectarian nature of Syria's civil war, signaling a thaw in a key Middle Eastern relationship strained by stark differences over the conflict. Iran  ...

  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday he was seeking U.S. help to counter a resurgent al-Qaeda in his country and blamed the revival of the extremist group on power vacuums in the region rather than divisive Iraqi policies. On his first visit to Washington...

The Colonel held out through two years of conflict, but recently the economic conditions there have become untenable.   In 2006, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened Syria’s first American restaurant in Damascus. The franchise weathered more than two and a half years of war, but...

The UN food aid agency said Friday that it feared a rise in malnutrition among children trapped in besieged communities in Syria where fighting has halted supply convoys. "The World Food Programme is concerned about the fate of many Syrians trapped in conflict areas and still in need of...

Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed on Friday in a U.S. drone strike, security and intelligence sources said, in the latest blow to the Islamist militant group. The al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group confirmed the death of Mehsud, believed to be in his mid-30s....

    The Ministry of Labor has ruled out an extension of the amnesty period and warned illegal workers and Saudi employers that countrywide raids would start on Nov. 4. Hattab Al-Enezi, the ministry’s spokesman, rejected on Thursday reports carried by some channels...

Private CBC TV station says it has stopped Bassem Youssef's satirical show because it violates its editorial policies. A controversial satirical show of Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has been taken off air after being accused of violating editorial policies. A private...

Most of the nearly 1,000 people killed last month were civilians, according to government figures. Nearly 1,000 people were killed across Iraq in October, making it the country's deadliest month since April 2008, figures compiled by government ministries showed.. A total of...

  Orient TV reporter has been kidnapped in Aleppo in area controlled by al-Qaeda affiliate, the State of Iraq and The Levant, media sources said to Zaman Alwasl . Mouayyed Salloum is citizen journalist and activist,  he started working as a reporter...

    The Shiite Turn in Syria is in-depth study by the researcher Khalid Sindawi, Zaman Alwasl republishes this important paper which appeared   before in Volume 8 of   Current Trends in Islamist Ideology ,   published by Hudson Institute,...