With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters. But in a country more than 14,000 kilometres from the frontline, Syria's civil war is also playing out in...
Syria's opposition leader met Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to pressure Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation. The talks between Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmad Jarba and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came after...
A rebel group, said in statement posted online that 85 militants of forces loyal to Bashar al Assad have been killed after bombing their base in Mlaiha, east Damascus. Rebels blew up a building used as a military base for Assad forces, situated near the Air Defence headquarters...
Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Jarba is to visit Moscow on Tuesday at the invitation of Russian authorities, AFP said. "Mr. Jarba has accepted the Russian invitation and will go to Moscow on February 4," Monzer Aqbiq, head advisor to the leader of the Syrian...
