A team of poets who write lyrics on the spot and an electronica twist help singer from war-torn Syria go global Bank notes rain down on Omar Souleyman. Beautiful women in silk gowns dance around him. Backed by music of hypnotic intricacy, he...
Jamal Karsli, a former German MP, with Syrian origins, a political activist for more than 30 years and a strong supporter to the Syrian revolution since its start on March 15, 2011. Eqtsad, Zaman Alwasl business newspaper, has an opportunity to...
Head of the opposition Interim Government said the International community had asked Syria's main opposition group to not put pre-conditions before Geneva peace conference next November as demanding Bashar al-Assad to leave the power. Mr. Ahmad Toumeh stated to the...
Unknown armed group kidnapped rebel commander in Manbij north Syria, local sources revealed to Zaman Alwasl. The missing of sheikh Mohamed al-Kanj, leader of Ashab al-Yamin brigade came after an argument between Kanj and the Emire of al-Qaeda affiliated group, State of...
A video message purporting to show a Russian man abducted in Syria set a deadline of five days for the release of a detained Saudi national in exchange for the Russian's freedom, Reuters reported. The footage posted on YouTube showed a bearded man...
Syrian forces seized a suburb of Damascus on Thursday from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in a push that has shored up government control of the capital's outskirts, state television reported. Assad's forces, backed by Shi'ite fighters from Lebanon, Iraq...
Syria's opposition National Coalition is to meet November 9 to decide on the divisive issue of whether to take part in peace talks in Geneva, a Coalition member said Thursday. "We have decided to put off the (Coalition's) General Assembly and political committee...
Much of Syria, including the capital Damascus, was hit by a power cut late on Wednesday after rebels attacked a gas pipeline, state media said. "A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces and work to repair it...
Assad's court freed 'The youngest known convicted prisoner' Tal al-Mallouhi Syrian First Criminal Court in Homs issued on Wednesday judicial decision to release immediately the youngest known convicted prisoner Tal al-Mallouhi, 22-year-old, after 45 months of imprisonment,...
The last image of Reuters showing Syrian people running from a fire at a gasoline and oil shop in Aleppo's Bustan Al-Qasr neighborhood October 20, 2013, might be the nearest photo-Story about what is really happening in the most controversial crossing point...
Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria has appointed new Emir for al-Dana town in Idlib countryside after assassinating its emire Abu Abdullah al-Lybi by unknown armed group next to Bab al-Hawa crossing border last week, special source told Zaman Alwasl. The State of Iraq and al-Sham...
Syrian rebels have circulated footage on the social media showing them playing football in their leisure time. Rebel FaceBook page quoted the fighters saying, ''we have to approve that life will go on as well as we surpass pain and sadness;...
Syrian mainstream and Islamist rebels pressed an advance Wednesday against Bashar al-Assad troops in Homs province aimed at capturing major weapons depots, rebels and a monitoring group said. Several brigades, among them the Al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the...
Assad's army has sealed the few remaining smuggling routes into the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus, activists and aid workers said on Wednesday, tightening a chokehold on rebel-held areas near the capital. Activists inside the Eastern Ghouta region, a semicircle of rural towns...
A Dutch court has found two men guilty of preparing to travel to Syria to fight with rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad, verdicts prosecutors say will help other such cases in the future. Wednesday's convictions by a court in Rotterdam are the first in the Netherlands...
At least eight Tunisian policemen and two Islamist militants were killed on Wednesday when they clashed during a raid by security forces in Sidi Bouzid in the south of the country, security sources and state television said. Tunisian authorities say Ansar al-Sharia, one of the...
A 15-year-old Yemeni girl has been burned to death for allegedly meeting her fiancé before their wedding, police said on Tuesday, adding that her father was the chief suspect. Prosecutors are to press charges against the 35-year-old over the death of his daughter in the village of...
Syria has long claimed that its chemical weapons were a deterrent against Israel, but analysts say the real target was Syrians, so their dismantling by the United Nations will not change the regional balance of power. “Syria’s chemical weapons were never a credible deterrence,” against...
Allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on millions of French citizens are set to overshadow vital talks on the future of Syria. Top-ranking politicians from both sides of the Atlantic will come face to face on Tuesday just one day after a report in Le Monde...
U.N.’s humanitarian chief should call for a cessation of hostilities not only in Moadamiyet al-Sham, Damascus suburbs, that has been besieged for months by the Syrian army, but also for the besieged neighborhoods of Homs, activists appealed, ''so that food and vital medical aid can be...
