The nation's top military officer told a Senate panel Thursday the Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military power in Syria, where a civil war entering its third year has killed almost 93,000 people.   Amid an increasing clamor among President Bashir...

Most people in Damascus know the influence of "Shiites" in Shaghour and Al-Amin area, and it was aggravated in latest years by the sectarian schools, mosques and centers which educating the Shiite sect principles.  Some years ago, it was a taboo to speak about religious sections....

  Walid Junblatt, the Druze leader told the newspaper “Al-Anba’a” that he had information about the plans of   the regime of Bashar al-Assad to re-structure the area of the Jabal al-Arab by settling tens of thousands of strangers in the region and naturalizing them....

ZAATARI, Jordan — Angry Syrian refugees confronted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday with demands for the United States and the international community to do more to help opponents of President Bashar Assad’s regime, venting frustration at perceived inaction on their...