(Reuters) - The United Nations aid chief on Friday urged the Security Council to impose an arms embargo and sanctions in Syria for violations of humanitarian law as special envoy Angelina Jolie pleaded with council members to visit millions of Syrian refugees. The aid official, Valerie...

The United Nations said Friday it would host separate talks with rival sides in Syria from May 4 in a bid to kickstart stalled negotiations to end the four-year conflict. "The Geneva consultation invitations have gone out a couple of days ago," UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told reporters, saying...

Top Syrian security official Rustom Ghazali died of his wounds, pro-Bashar al-Assad al-Mayadeen satellite channel reported on Friday.  

(Reporting by Al Hussein Al Shishakli) Syria's opposition group the National Coalition will appoint Dr. Jamal al-Asaad as its representative in Croatia for one year, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Coalition's political commission has nominated Al-Assad this month, who also...

Report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights  ( SNHR )-  As the popular protests began in March 2011 the Syrian authorities realized the crucial role of the media in exposing their crimes and violations and in delivering the people main...

Several hard-line Syrian rebel groups pushed a new offensive against government forces in northwestern Syria on Thursday, less than a month after seizing control of the provincial capital there. The conservative Islamic factions, including the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, are...

Syrian rebels' seizure of the main frontier crossing with Jordan has dealt a heavy blow to the Damascus government's efforts to revive a once thriving export trade crippled by civil war, and is also hurting businesses across the region. Western-backed mainstream insurgents took control...

Key rebel groups including al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, have made strategic gains on Wednesday near captured city of Idlib, taking control of al-Qarmeed camp and pressing advances to capture Jisr al-Shughour city near the coastal Latakia province, according to activists....

Islamic State is preparing for a possible attack on a city in northeastern Syria near the border with Iraq where it remains a big threat despite recent setbacks, a Kurdish official told Reuters on Tuesday. Hasaka province in northeastern Syria is strategically important for all sides and...

Russia is arming Iraq and Syria to help them fight Islamic State, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, calling the radical militant group the main threat to his own country's security. "Islamic State is our main enemy at the moment. If only because hundreds of Russian...

Syrian regime's warplanes have conducted more than 30 raids on rebel-held neighborhoods of Damascus, leaving dozens killed and wounded, activists and monitoring groups said Wednesday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 14 people, including 3 children and 2 women,...

 The leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been seriously wounded in an air strike in western Iraq, sources have told the Guardian. A source in Iraq with connections to the terror group revealed that Baghdadi suffered serious injuries during an attack by the US-led...

   (Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Pro-Islamic State website said Syrian fighter who carried out a suicide attack on rivals of the hardline group in Kirkuk north of Iraq days ago.  'Welayyet Kirkuk' website posted photo of Abu Qatada a l-Jablawi...

( Video )- Mohamed Zaka, 13-year-old, delivers his own analysis for the Syrian conflict with no fear, using his sense of humor when he talks about the deteriorating situation in rebel-held Aleppo. Zaka with his playmates of rebel-held Aleppo keep their regular life despite daily barrage...

 The U.N. Security Council on Monday demanded all parties to the Syrian civil war allow humanitarian aid to reach without obstruction the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, a site that Islamist militants had recently seized. The unanimous appeal by the...

The U.S. State Department said on Monday it might talk with Iran about promoting regional stability, noting it had been open to including Iran in past efforts to achieve a Syrian peace deal if Tehran had altered its policy. But it drew a distinction between talking to Iran about issues...

Southern Front rebels on Monday have thwarted Syrian forces' attack on Bosr al-Harir town in the eastern countryside of  Daraa province, inflicting heavy losses, activists said. Bashar al-Assad's forces and his allied Shiite militias carried out a surprise attack on eastern...

In a remarkable incident, Priest Ibrahim Farah, Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Idlib, has entrusted a Muslim man to take care of the church as he flees the captured city. Zelal Badie al-Moallem, former member of Syria's national team for volleyball, told Zaman al-Wasl that Priest...

Head of Syrian opposition's the National Coalition to visit Doha Tuesday in an effort to mobilize support after decline, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. Mr. Khaled Khoja will visit Qatar for the first time since he was elected as a head of the Western-backed group early 2015....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement in Eastern Ghouta district of Damascus agreed Sunday to abide by the decision of unified judiciary to deliver its fighters' weapons to Failaq al-Rahman, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources. Despite its discontent, Ahrar's step...