Zaman-Alwasl Arabic exclusively published the latest Minutes of the Coalition's political Commission. The minutes of meeting took place on 21 July 2013, the detailed comments and discussions indicated to the terrible situation within the main opposition stream and how disputes...

Syria's main opposition group called Saturday for the immediate release of an Italian Jesuit priest who went to negotiate with jihadists and who is feared to have been taken prisoner. The National Coalition said it "expresses its deep concern over the disappearance of Father Paolo...

Two Islamist Lebanese-Swedish brothers who left their Scandinavian home for Lebanon, have died fighting alongside Syrian rebels, their cousin and a local cleric said on Saturday. Hassan and Moatasem Deeb "were killed Friday in a rebel assault on the Abu Zeid army checkpoint near Qalaat...

  Free Syrian Army Battalions gained advanced missiles and sophisticated weapons by controlling 3 ammunition depots in the Damascus countryside; activists reported.  Rebels from (al-Islam brigade, Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Tawhid battalion, Quwat al-Maghaweer, Shuhada'...

    Trading of the detainees corpses in Aleppo increased recently by the Air Force Intelligence, sources reported to Zaman Alwasl.   Hundreds of Syrian families are in big tragedy. They cannot bury their sons, only the lucky ones who can receive the corpses in the...

Syrian National Coalition has appointed Mr. Muwaffak Nyrabia, the veteran dissident and former Political prisoner, as Head of Coalition Bureau in Berlin.  The German Government has provided 3 German employees to assist the Coalition envoy where they will coordinate between...

  Secretary General of the National Coalition, Dr. Badr Jamous, has filed a complaint against political commission member over insulting Jamous and using obscene words. Zaman Alwasl source said that Jamous had made a formal request to open an investigation last week against...

Syria’s economy has been crippled by war. More than two years of unrest, violence and international sanctions have   depleted the regime’s foreign reserves   and led to soaring inflation. But the government hasn’t gone bankrupt.   That’s thanks largely to economic...

UNITED NATIONS — Syria’s Opposition  urged a U.N. team heading to Syria in the coming days to start their investigation of alleged chemical weapons use in a village near Aleppo where rebel fighters recently ousted government forces. The Syrian National Coalition said in a statement...

The United States said on Friday it would work with other nations to resolve Egypt's crisis peacefully, injecting new energy into a push to end a bloody standoff since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A day after saying the army had restored democracy by removing Mursi,...

In a rare public appearance on Friday, Hezbollah ’s leader,  Hassan Nasrallah , urged Arabs and Muslims to stay focused on opposing Israel despite bitter disagreements over the Syrian war, and declared that his Shiite followers would not bend in the face of rising anti-Shiite sentiment...

Towns and villages in Syria that have been home to Christians for hundreds of years are being steadily emptied by sectarian violence and targeted kidnappings. Tens of thousands Syriac Christians – members of the oldest Christian community in the world – have fled their ancestral provinces...

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Friday announced that he rejects taking part in a cabinet in which Hizbullah has representatives, stressing also the state and illegal weapons "cannot coexist." "We will not participate in a council of ministers if Hizbullah has representatives in it,”...

       29 members of the Opposition National Coalition have joined the veteran dissident Haytham al-Maleh in his claims about the invalidity of political commission election as well as the coalition expanding.   The petition has just came after a letter...

  The security situation is more complicated in Jarmana, 10Km, southern Damascus, reliable source told Zaman Alwasl. ''Large numbers of the pro-Assad militia (Popular committees) in the city with Druze majority, had delivered back their weapons to Assad Army,'' the source said....

Jordanian border guards have foiled an attempt to smuggle large amounts of weapons and drugs into the kingdom from Syria, the army said Friday. "Forces of the frontier guard yesterday evening (Thursday) seized large quantities of munitions and different types of drugs during an attempt to...

Street names in Syria’s far northeastern corner have been changed from Arabic to Kurdish, schools openly teach the Kurdish language, and the country’s most powerful Kurdish militia flies its flag from checkpoints on main roads. Across northeastern Syria, the Kurds, the country’s...

  Veteran Dissident Haytham al-Maleh have criticized the polarization within the National Coalition in a letter expressing the head of legal committee disappointment regarding the latest expanding list of the coalition members which is not legal according to Coalition law and...

Coalition delays its meetings according to political tour   National Coalition goes on rapid visits and meetings from Paris to the United Nations headquarters after that to Doha; the political tour will be continued, according to source to Zaman Alwasl.   A...

  Families of Syrian dissidents officers in Jordan are exposed "to throw in the street'' because they can not afford housing wage Source said to Zaman Alwasl that 35 families of high ranked Generals, who defected from the Syria Army in protest on the Assad brutality in...