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France says it will not act alone in Syria

 France will not launch an assault on Syria alone and will wait for U.S. Congress to decide on whether to punish President Bashar al-Assad's government for a gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said. Valls made the comments on Sunday...

The Tomahawks fly

A Western attack will not want for firepower or targets—but it will need to be finely judged if it is to work British and French aircraft flying out of Incirlik in  AS WAR-CRIES go, “There are no good options” leaves something to be desired. But punishing the Syrian regime for...

Islamist rebels go into hiding ahead of Syria strikes

An anticipated U.S.-led strike on  Syria  has not only put government forces on alert, it has also alarmed rebels, in particular Islamist groups linked to al Qaeda who worry they too are targets, Reuters reported. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, al-Qaeda-linked group...

US strike raises Syrian humor and political analysis

When jokes and sarcasms become the only way to survive, you must be in Syria. Syrians deserve to enter Guinness record as the first population to get ready for war by jokes. The ironic issue is that Syrians found the anticipated US strike to Syria, the hottest subject on...

FBI sharpens surveillance of Syrians in America

    The FBI has beefed up its surveillance of Syrians living in the United States ahead of a possible U.S. military attack on Syria,  The New York Times  reported Sunday. The domestic intelligence agency and the Department of Homeland Security...

Syrian children die of malnutrition: NGO

    Two children, (3 and 7 -year-old), were killed by a severe malnutrition in Mou'adamiya city, Damascus countryside, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The British-based watchdog said the death was caused by the severe lack of foodstuffs and aid, as well...

Russia Delays Arms Supplies to Assad over Money

  Russia is postponing supplies of fighter jets and S-300 missile defense systems to Syria because official Damascus failed to pay for them, Kommersant newspaper said Saturday. The 12  MiG-29M/M2  jets that Russia agreed to sell to Syria will not be supplied before 2016-2017,...

Free Army deploys soldiers near Turkish borders

 Rebels' Chiefs of Joint Staff have deployed large numbers of checkpoints in Idlib countryside close to the Turkish borders with participation of number of brigades which have spread in the area. Senior official in the Joint staff said the intensive presence of FSA soliders...

UN experts leave Syria as US edges toward strike

 The U.N. experts investigating last week's alleged chemical weapons strike outside Damascus left Syria early Saturday and crossed into neighboring Lebanon, departing hours after President Barack Obama said he is weighing "limited and narrow" action against a Syrian regime that the...

Devastating Aleppo in pictures by Zaman Alwasl

  Zaman Alwasl visited Salah al-Din neighborhood in Aleppo where its camera had documented the large scale of destruction by intensive shelling of Assad forces. According to the recent pictures of our newspaper's correspondent to the neighborhood, showed that almost all...

The five big points from John Kerry’s speech on Syria

Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech on Syria on Friday afternoon, his second this week. It reiterated most of his main points from earlier in the week, mainly that the U.S. is considering limited, off-shore military strikes against Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad’s government...