Austria has announced that it is going to withdraw its contributions to UN forces in the Occupied Golan Heights after Syrian rebels and Assad’s forces battled near a crossing point close to the border with Israel.  The Austrian forces represented around 380 out of the...

The United Nations refugee agency is talking to Germany about resettling up to 10,000 Syrian refugees, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said on Tuesday. Edwards said UNHCR was also working with other European governments to find ways to help the 1.6 million Syrians who have fled the country, a...

 Two suicide bombers hit a central Damascus square Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, activists and the state media reported. Activists said one of the explosions took place inside the police station there and that many among the dead were policemen. Syrian state TV quoted a...

The Pentagon totally pinky-swears that this has nothing to do with Syria. It just happens to have sent 5,000 troops to neighboring Jordan to participate in a nine-day air defense, disaster relief and humanitarian assistance exercise, dubbed Eager Lion.   While the Pentagon says this...

Syrian rebels converged Monday on a military airport in Aleppo, where troops massed for a threatened assault, as the United States said it was considering "all possible options" to help the opposition. Buoyed by victory in the strategic town of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon, President...

 a statement apparently from Jabhat al-Nusra about the killing of a 14-year-old boy, who parents say was killed by three armed men after he said he won't offer coffee to customers for money to be paid later: "We Jabhat al Nusra confirm the following: We have nothing to do with the issue...

  Syrian rebels and activists have condemned the killing of a 14-year-old boy, allegedly by al-Qaeda-linked fighters who accused him of blasphemy. Residents of the northern city of Aleppo say Mohammad Qataa was shot dead after being accused of misusing the name of the Prophet Muhammad....

The president of the National Co-ordination Body for Democratic Change Abroad, Called for an urgent meeting to have unified opposition with one political vision before going to Geneva 2.   Haytham Manna said in a statement for "Zaman Alwasl", It is time to open a new page...

  U.S. President  Barack Obama  will consider a wide range of options on  Syria  during meetings at the White House this week, a State Department spokeswoman said on Monday, expressing concern over a worsening situation in Syria. "A wider range of options...

  According to "Los Angeles Times'' newspaper,  U.S. President Barack Obama are considering resettling refugees fled from Syria, as part of an international effort may receive thousands of Syrians in U.S. cities and towns. An official in the U.S. Secretary of...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will on Wednesday meet leaders of the Gezi Park platform, the group whose protests against the destruction of an Istanbul park have spiraled into a wave of anti-government protests that have rocked Turkey . "They asked to meet the prime minister and...

A decade after the   United States ’ invasion of Iraq ignited a season of deadly bloodletting between Sunni and Shia Muslims, this ancient divide in Islam is deepening throughout the   Middle East , aggravating political and ethnic tensions, inflaming emotions and...

  HERMEL,   Lebanon   — The strategic city of Qusayr in Syria has fallen to the Syrian Army, and the shock waves are still being felt in Lebanon, where increased fighting vividly indicates how Syria's 27-month-old civil war has destabilized the entire region....

 In protest against the Iranian intervention in Syria, number of Syrian activists call to organize large demonstrations in front of Iranian embassies in throughout the world. The activists said in a statement that this call represents an important step to draw the public...

  A woman from Aleppo who fled to the Turkish borders has left her infant 8-month-old since month ago in Gaziantep Children Hospital, according to "Zaman Alwasl" reporter in Turkey. The hospital nurses used to bring milk and diapers to 'Sarah Mustafa', waiting her mother's coming....

Fighting is intensifying in northern  Syria , where rebels say President Bashar al-Assad's forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies are preparing an offensive after success last week in seizing a strategic town further south. The capture by Assad's forces and Hezbollah of the town...

BAQUBA, Iraq — Two near-simultaneous car bombs and a suicide attack killed 12 people in a wholesale market north of Baghdad Monday, the latest in a surge in violence authorities have struggled to control. The blasts, which left another 48 people wounded, struck a predominantly Shiite town as...

The Egyptian authorities at Cairo International Airport banned the Syrian director Nidal Hassan from entering the country, based on a petition filed by the Assad Embassy in Cairo for security reasons, accusing Hassan of belonging to the Free Syrian Army.   Hassan was...

"Zaman Alwasl" reporter in Aleppo confirmed that the killer of the coffee-boy probably didn't belong to any of Islamic Brigades .   In a message to "Zaman Alwasl" from "Aleppo Media Center" said that until that moment they didn't recognize any group or faction being...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused  Iran  and its Palestinian and Lebanese allies on Sunday of carrying out "non-stop" cyber attacks on major computer systems in his country. He gave no details on the number of attacks but said "vital national systems" had been...