As hundreds of thousands of Syrians flee the war in their country, others are doing everything they can to reach the battle zones. Around 150 Kazakhs said to be from the same family – including very young children, teenagers, women and men – left their country “to fulfil their duty of jihad in...

The Islamic Ahrar al-Sham movement has denied the Human Rights Watch accusation  of   execution civilians and taking hostages in the Alawite villages in Latakia. In a statement was obtained by Zaman Alwasl, the rebel movement said no one of its fighters was involved...

Head of the Military security in Deir el-Zour has been killed by a sniper bullet. Assad-run television reported Thursday that  top Syrian army general has been killed in fighting with rebels, as the country's deputy prime minister floated Nov. 23-24 as possible dates for...

  Two policemen were killed in a clash with a “terrorist” group west of the Tunisian capital on Thursday, the interior ministry said.   “Two National Guard agents were killed and a third was wounded in a confrontation with an armed terrorist group” in...

  The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham denies being hit by Turkish mortar as the Turkish Chief of General Staff has said in response to a mortar shell fired on Tuesday from Syria's Parsaia Mountain near the border town of Azaz, sources told Zaman Alwasl.  ...

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said on Thursday that Geneva II, an international conference aimed at seeking an end to the country’s civil war, is scheduled to be held between Nov. 23-24, reported Reuters. Jamil announced the dates at a news conference in Moscow when asked...

  Muslims throughout the world have been marking Eid al-Adha, but in war-torn Syria there is nothing to celebrate. Most people are struggling to meet the most basic of needs: food, water, and shelter. Their plight has been highlighted by Arabic media reports which cite a...

  At a roundtable discussion this past weekend in the Aegean town where  Herodotus  was born, history-making events, on the scale of those he recorded, provoked sharp debate. At its annual roundtable in Bodrum, the Istanbul-based  Edam Centre for Economics and Foreign...

  While the children of Ein Tarma town in Damascus suburbs were playing and celebrating the major Muslims' holiday Eid al-Adha, Bashar al-Assad warplanes hit the pubic square of the city, killing 3 children at least . Pro-Assad's social media pages said...

 Rebels close to take over the central prison of Aleppo after two suicide bombs and ongoing clashed, activists reported. ''50 soldiers of Assad regime forces have been killed among them a high ranking officer,  with more than 500 detainees have been released  including...

Twenty-one people, including four children and six women, were killed when a minibus hit a mine in the southern  Syria n town of Noa on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Opposition activists told the Observatory the minibus drove over a...

  Sky News Arabia said that a team of its reporters had gone missing in the contested city of Aleppo.   The Abu Dhabi-based channel said it lost contact on Tuesday morning with reporter Ishak Moctar, a Mauritanian national, cameraman Samir Kassab, a Lebanese...

Syrian army troops have recaptured a strategic town in the south of Damascus from opposition forces on Wednesday, state media and a monitoring group reported.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army was backed by Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite militia in the assault on the...

The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday its inspectors have checked 11 out of 20 sites identified by Damascus as it works to eliminate Syria's banned weapons. "The OPCW mission has now conducted verification activities at a total of 11 sites that are identified by Syria's...

  As Muslims around the world mark the Eid Al Adha, sharing festive meals, children trapped in besieged areas around the Syrian capital are going hungry, activists and medics say. In some areas children have died from severe malnutrition, according to one NGO, and a...

Syrian activists say that two days of heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and al-Qaida-linked rebels in the northeast have killed at least 41 on both sides, AP reported. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says to Associated Press the clashes in Hassakeh province...

    Turkish Chief of General Staff has said they responded to a mortar shell fired on Tuesday from Syria's Azaz/Parsa Mountain region with howitzer fire, Anadolu news agency reported. According to a statement released, the mortal shell fell on Turkish border town of...

I stopped to buy walnuts in Sidon last week from a sunburned man sitting on the pavement of the old souk. Like the walnuts – soft, almost creamy inside their iron-hard husks – he came from the Syrian town of Bloudan. In years gone by, I would take the steam train from the old Haj...

  Activists have circulated a photo on the internet for three sisters' children, who were victims of their father's dream of immigration to be face to face with sea darkness and human traffickers .   The Palestinian refugee Hussein Salameh, who fled from...

 An activist group says Syrian warplanes have been bombing the suburbs of Damascus while rebels have fired mortar shells at the capital on the first day of a major Muslim holiday. Tuesday’s fighting shows how entrenched both sides in Syria’s civil war have become. Earlier in...