The frequently voiced fear that the Syrian crisis could engulf the region is unlikely to be realized in one earth-shattering event. Instead it will leak across borders, a contact corrosion that, once established, will likely prove impossible to eradicate. In neighboring Lebanon, it has...

It’s no secret that Lebanon and Syria are intertwined politically, economically, and socially in ways that have become all the more evident since the war started raging in Syria more than two years ago. A new study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, or...

 SNC Leader: Democratic transition can not be implemented with Assad presence  ''The Tyrant- Bashar al-Assad- should be ousted, thereupon, we have to reform all government institutions that suffer from corruption, bribes and deficit as well as to reconstruct the...

Rebels in southern  Syria  have fired newly acquired anti-tank guided missiles supplied by Saudi Arabia in a significant boost to their battle against President Bashar al-Assad, rebel, intelligence and diplomatic sources say. Several Russian-designed Konkurs anti-tank weapons...

Several people have been killed in a powerful explosion that rocked the stronghold of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut. Reuters witness at the scene said at least five buildings were damaged and many cars in the area were destroyed. The blast...

More than 9450 Syrian students are doing their  baccalaureate  exams today under the surveillance and monitoring of the Opposition in the liberated areas in Aleepo, al-Raqqa, Idlib, Deir Ez Zour and in the refugee camps of Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.  An opposition...

 Assad-run-Media broadcast  footage of 13-year-old girl admitting of working with Jabhat al-Nusra, linked-to-al-Qaida as promoter for 'Jihad Mariage'. The humiliating interview has raised great anger and resentment among the Syrian civil community and rebel ranks....

   March for Syrian gays in Istiklal Street, the center of Istanbul, have raised the flags of the revolution and the Regime.  The controversial rally was organized by 'Mawaleh"- The salty nuts- the first Syrian magazine for homosexuals, Zaman Alwasl has...

We could not confirm what Zaman Alwasl had published that Jesuit Father Paolo Dall'Oglio has been killed, t he Vatican's ambassador to Damascus last said.  ''We are very worried about Father Dall'Oglio as for everyone here in Syria, where the situation is getting worse with...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has said it planned to march in the capital, Cairo, reiterating it remained committed to a peaceful struggle, a day after hundreds of its supporters were killed in a bloody security crackdown in the capital. "Marches are planned this afternoon from Al-Iman mosque...

Rebels looking after a mother and her newborn baby in liberated  Alawite part of Lattakia countryside   A mature video footage showed two women from the Alawite part of Lattakia countryside, in Salma village, that fell under the rebels control. One of those women gave...

Syrian rebels, frustrated by the West’s reluctance to provide arms, have found a supplier in an unlikely source: Sudan, a country that has been under international arms embargoes and maintains close ties with a stalwart backer of the Syrian government, Iran. In deals that have not been...

  Sunni markets in the Alawite neighborhoods of the city of homs are flourishing again after The fall of Khalidiya last July. Sources from al-Nuzha and al-Hadhara, pro-Assad neighborhoods, assured that huge numbers of the stolen goods from Khalidiya were invaded the Sunni...

    As the election of the Syrian National Council is coming close, the director of the legal Office is demanding urgent reforms for the SNC where the elections should include the General assembly besides the executive bureau. Mr. Marwan Hajjo al-Refaei assured in an official...

  Nearly 60 Syrian soldiers and jihadists have been killed in three days of fighting in Deir Ezzor, the largest city in eastern Syria, where rebels have made advances, an NGO said Monday. At least 33 fighters of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and...

  A chief of staff source denied to Zaman Alwasl nominating the former Brigadier General of the Syrian Republican Guard, Manaf Tlass to head the new opposition National Army.   Recently, Mr. Ahmed Jarba, leader of the main stream opposition, stated about the...

State-run media circulated a statement, attributed to Sunni clergies, urging to takeover and seizure the minorities' property while the real statement was emphasizing on coexistence values as well as forbidding Civilian  killing . ''The statement is fabricated, it's clear call...

People of al-Raqqa city that has been under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, linked-to-al-Qaida, have demonstrated against the numerous abuses by the ISIS. ''We didn't demand to topple a tyrannical regime in order to substitute it by another one, activist from...

Norwegian PM Jens Stoltenberg spent an afternoon working incognito as a taxi driver in Oslo, he has revealed. Mr Stoltenberg said he had wanted to hear from real Norwegian voters and that taxis were one of the few places where people shared their true views. He...

      Senior Official in the Free Syrian Army has confirmed the execution of Rev. Paolo Dall'Oglio, Jesuit Priest in Raqqa city northeastern Syria. Lma al-Attasi, Secretary General of the Syrian national Front affirmed to Zaman Alwasl that the...