The main opposition group in Syria has approved two laws, regulating the mechanism of Coalition work as well the framework of the Interim government, according to Zaman Alwasl source. The veteran dissident and former National Council leader, Dr. Burhan Ghalioun, has proposed two laws...

  Syrian opposition Coalition welcomed UN Report over use of Chemical Weapons by Bashar al-Assad's forces in Ghouta, August 21, confirming that chemical weapons were used on 21 August 2013. The use of chemical weapons represents a grave violation of international law and it...

The United Nations on Monday revealed what it called "chilling" details of a sarin gas attack in Syria, leaving the major powers to battle over who was responsible. UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria as "a war crime" as the country's conflict again spilled...

U.N. inspectors said Monday there is "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people in the country's civil war. The findings represent the first official confirmation by scientific...

  Turkey has scrambled three fighter jets following clashes between Kurdish militants linked to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and al-Qaeda affiliate radical groups near the Turkish-Syrian border, Turkish Today's Zaman reported. The private İhlas news agency reported...

  Rebels executed a man and woman, who were convicted of cooperating with Bashar al-Assad's regime through planting electronic chips which used to identify sites (GPS) by the Syrian warplanes in rebels-held areas of the city.   The death penalty issued by...

Rebels Joint Chiefs of Staff denied in a statement posted on Sunday its relation with any publication or book, was circulated between activists, speaks about the armed groups in Syria or attacking the performance or the morale of the FSA battalions.     ''It's...

Designed by celebrated architect Kenzō Tange, what does the Syrian presidential palace say about the Assad regime? You can learn a lot about a dictator from their domestic decor. Saddam Hussein had a thing for gold loos and  erotic fantasy murals . Blonde beefcakes...

An Iranian war veteran fell into a coma in a Tehran hospital last week after suffering respiratory failure, his lungs ravaged by mustard gas during the  Iran -Iraq war 30 years ago. Hadi Kazemnejad is one of up to 1,000,000 Iranians who were exposed to chemical weapons by Saddam...

Jihadists and members of hardline Islamist groups make up almost half of forces fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to extracts from a British defence study published in Monday's Daily Telegraph. The analysis by defence consultancy IHS Jane's, due to be published in...

Ban Ki-moon to present report to UN Security Council on Monday after it was submitted to him by UN team. UN chemical weapons inspectors have handed their report into an alleged gas attack in Syria to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. The report into the incident, in which more...

  There is something deeply cynical about this chemical weapons ‘timetable’ Even if it succeeds, Syrians will be left to kill each other as before - only without sarin. What on earth was going on in Washington and Geneva last week? I’m not trying to cheapen the...

Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons bargain with  Russia and the United States offers another political and military lifeline to the Syrian president, just two years after he was dismissed in Washington as a "dead man walking". The deal, reached under the shadow of threatened U.S....

 Photos have surfaced on the Internet show militants of al-Qaeda-linked group, ISIS, following military training, assumed to be in eastern Ghouta near Damascus. The mounting question, according to activists, how 'The State of Iraq and al-Sham' could enter the besieged...

  More than 2,100 Syrian officers have fled to Jordan since the start of the conflict in their country in 2011, the kingdom's interior minister said in remarks published on Sunday.   "Jordan is hosting around 2,130 Syrian officers of different...

Footage has surfaced on the internet that gives the first tangible indication of Iran's involvement in the fighting in Syria on the side of the government forces, reports BBC Persian's Kasra Naji. Information that can be gleaned from the footage indicates that the Iranian fighters are part...

  National Kurdish Council joined the opposition National Coalition after  months  deliberations . Coalition members have voted YES to join the main stream Kurdish opposition in Istanbul by 52 out of 80 attended the vote on joining the Council, with 25...

  Syria's Revolution Facebook page revealed killing of Colonel Ala'a Munir Solaiman the leader of the so-called "National Defense Forces (NDF) in al-Ghouta near Damascus. Activists described him as a savage criminal who involved in Syrian bloodshed by killing honest...

  Brigadier General Salim Idris, Chairman of Rebels Joint Chiefs of Staff and Commander of the Supreme Military Council (SMC) of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), is widely considered a moderate figure within the Syria's armed opposition, besides his credibility among rebels'...

Activists in the city of Raqqa reported the death of a young woman called "Iman al-Halabi" in front of al-Rashid Garden near the Apple cafe. An eyewitness called himself "al-Raqqawi” who was in the crime scene said that the young lady "Iman", who was called “Tishreen” as...