Story Behind the Story, Lma Shammas, Zaman Alwasl reporter tells what behind her interview with one of  the FSA Battalions in the eastern Ghouta.    I planned to interview them without any prior preparations, as if its coincidence in the street. Therefore I...

US and Jordanian F-16 fighter jets hit dummy targets in the kingdom's southern desert on Wednesday, while Navy SEALs and other special forces rescued "hostages" and nabbed "terrorists" in mock exercises under major multinational manoeuvrers. Using live ammunition, six F-16s, two AV-8B...

   After the Egyptian decision to cut all ties with The Assad regime, a member of the National Coalition had suggested a draft to substitute the dismissed Syrian embassy in Cairo.  Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered 4 days ago to close the embassy in Cairo and...

The main nations making up the Friends of  Syria  will meet on Saturday in Doha to discuss assistance for the  Free Syrian Army  following recent successes by government forces, a French foreign ministry  official said. The meeting will be attended by foreign...

A controversial Salafist sheikh threatened on Wednesday to find a “military” solution to alleged Hezbollah safe houses in a southern Lebanese town, a day after clashes involving his supporters left one person dead. Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir is known for his vocal opposition to the powerful Shiite...

  Tadef town, Syrian north, established its own Police department to maintain security, control the traffic, and consider complaints and doing the patrols.  The Police Department of the liberated town affiliated with Aleppo is the executive authority of the Sharia...

    ' Haquna' Our-Right movement continues its protest for the third day in al-Raqqa with participation of tens of families demanding release the detainees from chambers of Islamic Groups, Jabhat al-Nusra and the ''Islamic State of Iraq and cham ''. Since...

On June 6, near the northwestern border of Iran, Yusuf Hamzelu, a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported. He was buried in Zandan on June 10. However, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan...

Abdulhamid sells ice cream to passersby at Domiz, Iraq's biggest camp for refugees fleeing violence in Syria, while Sidra reads an Arabic copy of "The Fox and The Crow" in class.   Little but luck appears to have separated the youths' fates -- they both arrived with their families...

Assad's regime has arrested early today TV Journalist and soap-operas writer Samer Radwan, who's famous by his opposition to the Assad regime despite his Alawite roots where he reflected that in his Drama series ' Welada Men Al-KHasera' that highlighted the corruption and regime's...

A loud explosion was heard near a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia on Wednesday, opposition groups and state media said, but the cause of the blast was unclear. Explosions in Latakia, part of President Bashar al-Assad's stronghold on the Mediterranean coast, have been...

As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said, here in the northern city of Aleppo. Then, virtually overnight,...

Abdul Basit Haroun says he is behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria, which he delivers on chartered flights to neighbouring countries and then smuggles over the border. After fleeing Libya in his 20s, Haroun established himself as a property developer in...

    Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman. Some bedsores have become so deep she's having surgery tomorrow. Screws hold together her upper vertebrae, and cigarette burns pock her right shoulder. Her voice fades...

Russia's Vladimir Putin derailed Barack Obama's efforts to win backing for the downfall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at a G8 summit on Tuesday, warning the West that arms supplied to the rebels could be used for attacks on European soil. After two days of intense talks that fell...

There is no proof that the Syrian government used chemical weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the G8 summit. Some of the G8 countries share this view, he added. “We do not have any facts of the use of such weapons by the Syrian government. I assure you, that by no means...

Free Syrian Army  (FSA) killed seven Hezbollah   militants  in Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday. Syria Local Coordination Committee (LCC) announced that FSA members killed 7  Hezbollah militants who fight for the regime forces in the al-Ziyabiya region...

Twin suicide bombs on a Shiite Muslim religious hall in north Baghdad on Tuesday killed 31 people and wounded 57 others, officials said, updating an earlier toll. The two attackers struck after midday prayers at the Habib ibn al-Mudhaher hussainiyah in the capital's Qahira...

Russian President Vladimir Putin faced further isolation on the second day of a G8 summit on Tuesday as world leaders lined up to pressure him into toning down his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Reuters reported. Following an icy encounter between the Kremlin chief and...

Europe will “pay the price” if it arms Syrian rebels, Reuters reported President Bashar al-Assad as saying on Monday. “If the Europeans deliver weapons, the backyard of Europe will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for it,” he said in an excerpted interview for German newspaper...