Iranian President Hassan Rowhani urged U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday to ignore “war-mongering pressure groups” at home in dealing with the Iranian nuclear dispute. In an address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York -- his first appearance on the world stage as Iran’s president...

Silva Koria, a journalist, told Alma’s story, a-45-year old lady who is paralyzed and has been bedridden for 4 months in a hospital in Amman. The journalist tried to deliver Alma’s message and voice, Alma, who demonstrated peacefully in the beginning of Syrian...

 Seeking to build on diplomatic opportunities, President Barack Obama is expected to signal his willingness to engage with the new Iranian government if Tehran makes nuclear concessions long sought by the U.S. and Western allies. Obama, in a planned address to the United Nations General...

US President Barack Obama demanded Tuesday the United Nations take tough action against Syria, as Russia wrangled with the West over how to strip Bashar al-Assad of his chemical arsenal. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the United Nations General Assembly leaders' debate by calling on...

A Syrian surgeon describes his struggles to treat the wounded in Homs and calls on the international community to intervene. I am a doctor working under siege in Homs, performing surgical operations in a basic hospital set up in an underground basement. The conditions in this field...

In early June 2011, some three months into the uprising against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Syrian government forces began preparing for a large-scale assault on Jisr al-Shughour, a rebellious border town sixty-five miles southwest of Aleppo. The events that led to this...

Turkish Authorities continued the close of both main border crossing in Bab al-Hawa, Bab al-Salameh and  Tal Abyad over  security reasons,  Zaman Alwasl correspondent reported.  Jarablous border crossing is the only  available  escape for ...

Syrian insurgents pressed a new assault in the strategic, heavily-defended southwestern suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday, saying they aimed to break an army blockade of rebel-held areas. Rebels fired mortars at government forces while army shelling hit the suburb of Derayya, the scene of...

Talks between Russia and the United States on the conflict in Syria are not going very smoothly, a secior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday “Unfortunately it’s necessary to note that in contacts with the Americans, things are not going so smoothly...they are not quite going in the...

  Tens of Turkish people and western tourists gathered around group of Syrian  who were impersonating the Syrian Suffering through their acts and gestures in the public square of Sultan Ahmed, tourism destination of Istanbul. "Syria unites us" group, is a...

Rawan Kaddah, 16-year-old, Syrian girl had forced to confess practicing sex jihad in an interview with Assad-run media, activists said. Kaddah who belongs to a well-know family from the city of Dara'a where the Syrian revolution broke out March 2011, claimed that she had worked...

    Ongoing clashes between rival groups within the armed opposition intensified in Syria’s Aleppo province this past week following protests against the heavy-handed tactics of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Infighting among rebels could spell...

Emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” In Aleppo has announced declining Azaz agreement  between ISIS and the North Storm Brigade which was signed in presence of mediators from al-Tawheed brigade, w ell-informed source reported to Zaman Alwasl . The...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called any possible foreign military intervention against Syria a form of "aggression" that would rattle the entire region and contravene international law. Putin told a summit of an ex-Soviet security group that he was grateful for its...

Syrian patients, including medical staff, who are targeted in the Assad regime's hospital attacks are receiving treatment in Turkish hospitals,  Anadolu Agency (AA) reported . Hospitals controlled by or affiliated with opposition forces are one of the systemic...

More than 400 refugees who said they were fleeing the Syrian civil war were intercepted near Sicily in the past 14 hours, and one 22-year-old woman died during the passage, Italy's coast guard said on Saturday. A first boat carrying 299 people, more than half of them women and...

This is an interesting letter issued by the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria ISIS about its battles in Azaz, Aleppo, against the Free Syrian Army's group, Asifat al Shamal (Northern Storm). Address: Aleppo, northern countryside, the emirate of Azaz   On Wednesday,...

  Badr Jamooss, Secretary-General for opposition Syrian coalition denied what Reuters reported about Ahmed Jarba's, the president of opposition Syrian coalition, agreement to go to Geneva2 conference on condition of formation a transitional government with the regime. He...

Egyptian court bans all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and seizes assets of Morsi's "backers". An Egyptian court has banned all the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered the assets of the backers of ousted president Mohamed Morsi seized, state television has announced....

As the Syrian crisis rages and debate heats up over Syria's chemical weapons, U.S. officials are fighting a quieter battle: The delivery of nearly $1.3 billion in assistance in a war zone so chaotic that ambulances are used for target practice and aid is halted by armed men at random...