President Michel Suleiman has called on the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to pull its guerrillas out of  Syria , saying any further involvement in its neighbor's civil war would fuel instability in Lebanon. Hezbollah militants spearheaded the recapture of the strategic...

  Lebanon's world famous Baalbek International Festival is looking to move away from the ancient city with its Roman ruins because of spillover violence from Syria's civil war, an official said Friday. The change of venue from Baalbek, where the annual music festival is usually...

Iran has stepped in to help Syria raise the value of its currency after it plummeted following the United States announcing plans to arm Syrian rebels. Before the Syrian civil war started more than two years ago, the Syrian pound was worth about 70 U.S. dollars; however, last week it was...

Neighbouring Iraq warned that Syria's civil war is tearing the Middle East apart and Lebanon's president urged his country's Hezbollah movement on Thursday to pull its fighters out of the conflict. After two years of fighting that has killed more than 93,000 people, Syria's turmoil...

Days after the deadly clashes between Kurdish forces of People Defense Units (YPG) and members of Free Syrian Army (FSA), the Kurds seized the control of the rural areas of Efrin, a Kurdish city in the north of the country, Firat news agency reported. .On vehicles Equiped with...

The former chief of opposition Syria National Council (SNC), Abdulbaset Sieda asked the Kurdish parties of the country to join the council, Anatolia news agency said . “ I came in Erbil again to demand the Syrian Kurdish parties to join Syria opposition national...

   Jordan’s military said that infiltrators from Syria have clashed with Jordanian soldiers near the border. One infiltrator was killed and two wounded. '' The attackers opened fire on a border post on Wednesday, according to a Jordanian military spokesman. Soldiers returned the...

   UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie traveled to Jordan's border with Syria on 18 June at the start of a visit to mark World Refugee Day. She met with refugees as they were arriving and listened to their stories of escape.She urged the international community to do more to...

  Saudi Arabia plans to deport Lebanese citizens who support Hezbollah because of the militant group's role in the Syrian civil war, the kingdom's envoy to Lebanon said. The warning comes amid Hezbollah's increasingly prominent participation in the Syrian conflict, with members of the...

American President Barack Obama’s  decision to provide the Syrian opposition with light arms and ammunition  is not considered a significant shift. It’s certainly not a strategic move either, but a limited tactical one that does not live up to the level of military escalation...

This is turning into a dark and nervous summer in Lebanon. Peace depends on maintaining a delicate balance of power between different religious groups. This summer, the formula isn't working. The reason is the war in Syria. From the beginning, the Lebanese have been deeply divided...

MY eyes kept being drawn to the shoes. The tiny pink running shoes with Velcro straps, on the feet of the 2-year-old girl sitting quietly on her mother’s lap. She fidgeted only a bit — jostling occasionally with her 7-year-old twin sisters while her father told a  United...

    Syrian Defense Ministry issued recently circular  was sent to all military institutions , barriers and checkpoints to ''not allowed any Syrian citizen wants to pass or move among his city or neighborhoods unless he provides his recent electricity, water and...

  British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that his government reserves the right to arm rebels in Syria without a vote in the House of Commons, saying that not holding a vote will allow the government to act “very swiftly.” Cameron’s comments are contrary to what was said by...

    Number of  Syrian  wounded in Lebanon urged Dr. Jawad Abo Hatab, the medical officer in the coalition to make an urgent act regarding the bitter situation they are going through to provide an emergency aid and financial support to cover treatment expenses....

  Lma Iskandar, Syrian Diplomat is "no longer willing to represent a regime that has committed such violent and oppressive acts against its own people". Zaman Alwasl source said. Iskandar assured that defection this week from Foreign Ministry headquarter of in...

  Number of Hezbollah militants and Iranians fighters arrested recently by FSA near Ma'aret Alertik in Idlib province, well informed source told Zaman Alwasl. The troops that came as reinforcement to Assad's Army had lost their way, to fall down by FSA fighters after...

  .   Aleppo rebels released recently the son of Ali Mamlouk, head of the Syrian national security in a deal to replace the prisoners.   The war-college student was arrested months ago when the college became under control of rebels....

"Zaman Alwasl" reporter affirmed presence of Hezbollah Militants in Jisir al-Shoghour, Capital of Idlib countryside. According to leaders in Free Syria Army, Hezbollah seeks to cut the road of arm and logistic supply to the FSA fighters on the Turkish borders....

   Media Center of Aleppo released a statement had issued by the Unified Judicial Council in Aleppo announcing  the admission of volunteers from the young people who want "jihad" against al-Assad and Hezbollah Militia. The council said in a statement " Who wishes to...