Russia has dispatched another consignment of humanitarian aid worth $1.3 million to the Assad regime   The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that the new batch, which was delivered to Damascus this week, includes medical equipment, clothes and food...

Two rockets landed in an area east of Beirut late on Thursday close to a military compound and Lebanon's presidential palace, security sources said. No one was hurt in the incident but it marked the second time in two months that rockets have been fired in the area, amid heightened...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels and made a symbolic visit to a town once overrun by insurgents but now mostly retaken by his army. The visit to the battered town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, and a defiant speech illustrate...

  Local activists in the city of Homs said 22 were killed and  70 people were wounded after rocket hit Al-Waer neighborhood .   The savage offensive By the Assad forces on al-waer neighborhood came after the huge explosion in Munitions depot in...

 Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, local Activists reported. The explosion occurred in the south-eastern district of Wadi al-Dhahab, which the army has taken over, the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels in a devastating 28-month-old civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and sent nearly two million fleeing abroad. Insurgents have seized large swathes of territory, but Assad's forces...

UN inspectors will investigate three sites in Syria where chemical weapons attacks were alleged to have occurred "as soon as possible", the UN said Wednesday. The move follows a deal the UN reached with Damascus last week . UN inspectors will go to Syria to...

    Large groups of smugglers attempting to illegally cross into Turkey from Syria are creating growing headaches for units of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) stationed near the tense southern frontier, with reports that up to 2,000 smugglers alone attempted to enter the country on...

 Fierce shelling on al-Mashhed neighborhood in the city of Aleppo had killed 5 people at least and dozens wounded, l ocal sources reported to Zaman Alwasl . According to activists there's no armed presence in the neighborhood which is dedicated to the relief work only....

 Leaked document by the regime military police, permits to deliver a detainee corpse  to his family  after 7 months since his death. The paper clarified that the victim was arrested in Intelligence Branches, his death date was 20-11-2012 and the date of delivering...

French University to provide scholarships for the top students at baccalaureate in Liberated Syria, an official source said   The French Strasbourg University will provide 4 scholarships for the top students at baccalaureate of 2013 in Liberated Syria, an official source in...

 The Free National Rally for workers in the Syrian state institutions denounced what circulated in social media and news websites that its president and Syria’s defected former prime minister, Riyad Hijab had sent a congratulation letter to PYD Leader regarding the claims of  'new...

  American intelligence analysts have concluded that a recent Israeli airstrike on a warehouse in Syria did not succeed in destroying all of the Russian-made antiship cruise missiles that were its target, American officials said on Wednesday, and that further Israeli strikes are likely....

Pau Gasol, National Basketball Association (NBA) champion and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ), has wrapped up a visit to Iraq by urging additional support for the hundreds of thousands of Syrian children forced out of their homeland by conflict. “I met children who...

 Assad troops attacked rebel positions outside Khan al-Assal on Wednesday as they seek to recapture the northern town at the center of rival chemical weapons accusations, a watchdog said. Fierce fighting erupted on the outskirts of the town, which the rebels seized on Monday of...

Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to address the situation in the Middle East, the Kremlin said. "A wide number of questions regarding Saudi-Russia relations were discussed as well as the situation in North...

  Veteran dissident and Coalition member, Dr. kamal Allabwani, have proposed a roadmap to regain the control in the liberated areas . Zaman Alwasl publishes the main points of Allabwani plan .   The goal is to build real authority on the...

The wife of a slain Syrian political analyst and ardent supporter of President Bashar al-Assad was charged in Lebanon on Wednesday with incitement to murder, a judicial source told AFP. Siham Younis’s brother was indicted on the same charge, while her nephew was charged with the murder of...

The Philippines will likely keep its peacekeeping forces in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for six more months after securing U.N. assurances for the safety of its 342 soldiers in the ceasefire zone, Manila's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Albert del Rosario said Manila was...

Tehran agrees to supply Damascus with oil in exchange for the right to invest in country devastated by conflict. Iran has agreed to supply Damascus with $3.6bn in oil in exchange for the right to invest in the country, Syria's state news agency SANA has said. "An agreement was signed...