The European Union has praised a United Nations resolution aimed at destroying Syria's chemical arms cache for "setting a standard" against perpetrators of poison gas attacks. The resolution represented "a major step towards a sustainable and unified...
Experts from the world's chemical weapons watchdog will begin inspecting Syria's stockpile of toxic munitions by Tuesday, according to an agreement passed in The Hague on Friday. The agreement enables the U.N. Security Council to vote later on Friday on a draft resolution on eradicating...
Zaman Alwasl has obtained confidential information about the nominated dissent list to attend Geneva 2 as a negotiating team who will represent the National Coalition for Syrian opposition and revolutionary forces and other opposition factions; which has been prepared in...
The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday that demands the eradication of Syria's chemical weapons but does not threaten automatic punitive action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government if it does not comply. The unanimous vote by the 15-member Security...
The head of the key Syrian opposition National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, has denounced extremists he said were trying to "steal our revolution", and blamed the regime for supporting them, AFP reported. He made the comments in an address in New York to representatives from the Friends of Syria...
President Barack Obama says a deal reached on a United Nations resolution to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons is "potentially a huge victory for the international community." The draft resolution's demands that Syria abandon its chemical stockpile and allow unfettered access to...
Al-Qaeda affiliate group, Jabhat al-Nusra Leader Abu Mohammed al-Joulani had visited border town with Iraq earlier this month, reliable source told Zaman Alwasl. Joulani called his fighters in al-Shahil town for more achievement and progress in the eastern...
A car bomb killed at least 70 people and wounded dozens more on Friday when it exploded in Rankus, a town 30 km north of the Syrian capital Damascus, activists said. Activists in a nearby town said the blast occurred in front of a mosque soon after Friday...
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he hopes the five permanent members of the UN Security Council will be able to set a date on Friday for so-called Geneva 2 peace talks on the Syrian conflict. The five - France, Britain, Russia, China and...
Al-Qaeda affiliate group, 'The Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham' has captured ammunition depots of Ahfad al-Rasoul brigade in Deir EzZour east Syria. The loot process of ISIS faced with no resistance of the Al-Hfad inorder no escalations will be happened in time the...
In the photograph the two robed men stand shoulder-to-shoulder, one tall and erect, the other more heavyset. Both smile for the camera. The picture from Tehran is a rare record of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meeting Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, the...
U.N. chemical weapons inspectors in Syria are investigating seven cases of alleged chemical or biological weapons use, including three incidents around Damascus after the August 21 attack which almost triggered U.S. air strikes. The inspectors expect to finalize their work...
Jihadist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda set fire to statues and crosses inside churches in northern Syria on Thursday and destroyed a cross on a church clock tower, AFP reported. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters entered the Greek Catholic Church of Our Lady...
The Iraqi government is taking measures to provide accommodation, food and security for a surging number of displaced Syrians in that country. Iraq has received 210,000 Syrian refugees so far, a sudden increase from 160,000 just over a...
Activists say an al-Qaeda commander in Syria has been killed during clashes with Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which closely monitors the fighting in Syria, says the commander died on Wednesday night in...
The head of the opposition Syrian Supreme Military Council cut short a visit to France on Thursday and said he would head to Syria for talks with rebel brigades that broke with the Western-backed coalition. General Salim Idris, who...
Agreement reached on wording of United Nations resolution on Syria after foreign ministers meet with secretary general The five permanent members of the UN security council reached an agreement on Thursday over the wording of "binding and enforceable" resolution to...
Syrian rebels and al-Qaeda-linked fighters clashed with Kurds in northern Syria on Thursday, activists said. The heavy fighting in the town of Atma on the border with Turkey's Hatay province followed outbreaks of internecine...
It was Sept. 4, and the war drums were sounding in Syria. The United States appeared to be on the verge of launching strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Family members of the country's economic and political elite fled to Beirut, looking to avoid the cruise missiles....
Residents from a small rebel held town in Syria have enacted a satirical pantomime that mocks the West's response to last month's chemical weapons attack in Damascus. As President Barack Obama pursues a diplomatic track, demanding that the Syrian regime give up its chemical...
