Sarin, a deadly nerve gas which the United States now says the Syrian regime has used against rebel forces, was developed by Nazi scientists in 1938. Originally conceived as a pesticide, sarin was used by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime to gas thousands of Kurds in the northern town...

 American and European intelligence analysts now believe that President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the civil war in Syria, an assessment that will put added pressure on a deeply divided Obama administration to develop a response to a...

Influential Sunni clerics from several Arab states including Saudi Arabia and  Egypt  called on Thursday for a holy war against the "sectarian" regime in  Syria . "We must undertake jihad to help our brothers in Syria by sending them money and arms, and providing all aid to...

    Micheal Kilo, the new member of the Syrian National Coalition considered that the recent expansion is expressing the Syrian national will. He pledged in a special Interview with "Zaman Alwasl," to quit from the coalition if it is not independent in its...

On Monday, June 10, 2013, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announced the 2012/2013 Arab Opinion Index main findings. Conducted annually by the ACRPS, the Arab Opinion Index aims to offer information on Arab public opinion with respect to economic, social and...

The bread queue can be a dangerous and dishonest place in  Egypt . People have killed over state-subsidized loaves. Corruption blights much of the trade. The problems, says the ruling Muslim Brotherhood, are why it has introduced a new way to deliver bread - safely and cleanly -...

Thousands of children have been killed in the Syria uprising since March 2011, according to a new global UN report on children and armed conflict. Calling the toll "unbearable", the study said government forces and rebels were using boys and girls as "suicide bombers or human shields". In...

Among the consequences facing U.S. President  Barack Obama  if he decides against arming Syria's rebels is that Arab and European states may step in more aggressively, perhaps further fracturing rebel forces. Having watched government forces seize the strategic town of Qusair...

Bill Clinton told Sen. John McCain he agrees that President Barack Obama should act more forcefully to support anti-Assad rebels in Syria, saying the American public elects presidents and members of Congress “to see down the road” and “to win '', according a report on the Politico website....

More must be done to stop the "outrageous" loss of life in Syria, William Hague has said after talks with his US counterpart in Washington. Diplomatic efforts would be intensified amid reports that the Syrian government was planning "new assaults" on rebel groups, the UK Foreign Secretary...

The United States on Wednesday condemned a cross-border Syrian helicopter gunship attack on an eastern Lebanese town, calling it an "unacceptable provocation which risked dragging Lebanon into war. "The United States condemns in the strongest terms today's helicopter attack by the Syrian...

 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from  Syria 's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and  Israel  in the disputed  Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable  U.N.  peacekeeping force there by more...

  The tragedy as following; ''Your son has been arrested and tortured until death, and then they asked you in cold blood to take his body from the hospital. Oh how lucky am I? at least I know where I can bury him. The broken-hearted mother said about Hussam Khayat, 23...

Several Kuwaiti supermarket chains have begun boycotting products from Iran for its support of the Syrian regime, while activists staged a demonstration against the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the conflict. At least nine cooperative consumer societies out of 50 in the...

Assad's forces didn't achieve any progress in the northern Aleppo, according to a leader in the Free Syrian Army, FSA, especially on the fronts of Kvr-Hamra and Marrat al-Arteeq in the countryside of Aleppo. ''Fierce clashes still going on through two axes, without any progress...

  ''we had attacked the Shabiha of Hatla village  who are supporting the Assad regime as they did days ago by killing 4 fighters of al-Qadisyya Brigade.'' FSA source to Zaman Alwasl said.   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least...

A rebel armed group calling itself "As-Sadiq Al Ameen" has committed what appears to be a massacre against Shia civilians in Deir Ezzor.  According to  a video that emerged  on Tuesday, the group targetted the civilians because they are Shia. Residents say the group...

  Chiefs of Staff of the Supreme Military Council has announced Its 15 representatives in the National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces. In a statement released today by the office of General Salim Idriss, the commander of Supreme Military Council gave the...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will take action against Hezbollah loyalists living in the GCC countries, a statement issued by the council said on Monday. “The GCC will take measures against [those] in the GCC countries affiliated with Hezbollah in regards to their residencies as well as...

France and Saudi Arabia agreed during a meeting in Paris that the Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops, which defeated the rebels in the strategic town of Qusayr, should not be allowed to repeat the same scenario in province of Aleppo, Al Arabiya correspondent reported Tuesday. The two countries...