(AFP)- A nine-year-old girl has become the star of a YouTube comedy that depicts with bittersweet humour the harsh reality of everyday life in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo. Rasha plays the role of "Umm Abdo al-Halabiya", a housewife who must make do in a city devastated...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian state newspaper criticized the United Nations envoy to the country shortly before he arrived in Damascus on Saturday, for pursuing a plan that involves halting fighting in certain areas of the war-wracked nation. The daily Al-Thawra newspaper...

  BEIRUT (Reuters) - The former head of Syria's main political opposition said he had visited Russia with other opposition figures and had discussed ways to end the conflict with Damascus's ally Moscow, but had insisted that President Bashar al-Assad must go....

    (Zaman Al Wasl)-   The Islamic State's campaign of extreme violence and massive killing against Sheitat tribe east Syrian has pushed its youth to follow military training by Syrian regime army in Palmyra desert, sources said....