The annual birth rate in Syria has fallen by more than half since the civil war broke out in 2011, Al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday. Salah al-Sheikha, dean of Damascus University's faculty of medicine, told the newspaper that before the war Syria recorded around 500,000 births per year....

(The Independent)- A man has been detained in Serbia after he was found carrying a Syrian passport matching the same details as one found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers. The document also carried the details of 25-year-old Almohammad Ahmad but with a different photograph...

(Naharnet)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch al-Nusra Front has demanded control over two regime-held Syrian towns near Lebanon and the release of five women from Lebanese jails in return for freeing the captive Lebanese servicemen, a spokesman for the hostages' families said on Monday. “Al-Nusra's...

France's President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia on Monday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks in Paris, and hours later French fighter jets launched fresh strikes on targets in Syria. "France is at war," Hollande...