Rebel group north Syria has exchanged a captive soldier from the Assad army with a political detainee.  Al-Karameh brigade, based in Manebj, north Aleppo, said in a statement the Syrian detainee has spent 18 months in the military Saidnaya Prison and he's suffering...

Fourteen female detainees released as part of hostage exchange but dozens of others still being held, activist says. Syrian regime authorities have released 14 women detainees as part of a hostage exchange but dozens of others are still being held, a prominent human rights activist has...

Upset at President Barack Obama's policies on  Iran  and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years. Saudi Arabia's intelligence...

  Relatives and friends of the shipwrecks victims in the Mediterranean, have called through Zaman Alwasl for mass prayers to bless their souls in the highest heavens on Friday 25th. The  Syrian and Palestinian immigrants  were looking for better life,...

Syrian refugees and tourists in Turkish cities will not feel that homesick so much when many of Syrian restaurants' owners have moved their food industry to the new homeland that shares them the same religion, habits with many similarities according to the History and Geography. Abo...

    A rebel source from al-Tawhid brigade told Zaman Alwasl that its commander is fighting on the battlefronts against Bashar al-Assad forces in contrary to what has revealed by the pro-Assad Lebanese newspaper al-Safir  that Abdul- Qader Saleh in a private...

Islamist rebels battled Syrian government forces on Tuesday to retain control of Sadad, the historic Christian town which the insurgents has stormed a day earlier, residents said, according to Reuters. "There is a huge on-off battle here now, the army even used fighter jets," said one female...

  Islam Army, key rebels group, said in statement Tuesday 2 female officers have been killed and 15 others have been wounded by rebels' artillery shelling on the War College, near Damascus, during the graduation ceremony of new female officers. The Syrian conflict erupted in...

   Four people have been killed and  dozens wounded by Assad army shelling on al-Rawdha mosque in al-Waer neighborhood, during 'Dusk' prayer (al-Maghreb), l ocal activists in the city of Homs said . The embattled neighborhood has been living under siege...

Syria's moderate opposition should "commit itself fully" to planned peace talks, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has said after talks in London. Planned talks in Geneva next month offered Syrians the "best hope to improve their lives", Mr Hague said. He was speaking after Arab and...

The U.S. has given 10 armored vehicles to the United Nations to help support efforts to verify and destroy Syria's chemical weapons. The United States spent $1.55 million from the State Department's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund to pay for the armored vehicles, which were...

On Sunday, September 29, President Bashar al-Assad declared to the world, via an interview on Italian television, his resolve to clear Syria  of chemical weapons - accepting a Russian-brokered deal to avert punitive U.S. action. That same morning his forces appear to have dropped...

Plans for talks to end the fighting in  Syria  were in jeopardy on Tuesday after the opposition refused to attend unless President Bashar al-Assad is forced from power and a furious Saudi Arabia made clear it would no longer co-operate with the United States over the civil war....

 The rise of Islamist groups fighting Syria's Western-backed rebels has emboldened the Syrian government and will make it harder to extract concessions from Damascus at any peace talks, a US official said on Monday.   The United States hopes to bring...

Bashar al-Assad forces targeted Monday parts of monument Krak des Chevaliers ,Qalaat al-Hosn, with 5 'Grad' missiles, Sham news network reported.    The rockets largely damaged the basic towers of the citadel, Sham reporter said, assuring it's not the first time...

Qatar will bear all the costs of premiums for 580 Syrian students of the Embassy school, the Opposition envoy in Doha, Mr. Nizar al-Heraki , said to the Qatari newspaper, AL Arab. "We are very pleased for the Government decision by lifting the burden of school fees and other...

The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has said that  "factors are not yet in place" for peace talks despite efforts by world powers to convene a meeting next month. In an interview with on Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen television, broadcast on Monday, Assad also said he desired a third term as...

A 12-year-old student armed with a handgun shot and killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before killing himself at his Nevada middle school on Monday shortly before classes were due to begin, police said. Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the school in the...

More facts have been revealed regarding the Lebanese abductees and the exchange agreement with North Storm brigade. The rebel group in a statement issued today said the ongoing clashes with al-Qaeda affiliate, the State of Iraq and al-Sham was behind its hurry to deliver the...

  A fire broke out in the Syrian refugee camp of Ceylan Abinar in Urfa, Southern Turkey with no casualties reported, according to Zaman Alwasl sources.  Modar Ghzayyel, a Syrian refugee, said 25 tents have been burned where we found 25 families in urgent need for...