BEIRUT (AP) — The widowed Syrian mechanic had a new lease on life after he married his second wife: he enrolled in a high school, graduating at 60. The couple had five children, living in an impoverished quarter of a town in northern Syria. They all died after a missile smashed...

    The embattled neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs still a main target for Basher al-Assad’s sporadic mortar fire, activists reported. Assad’s forces have intensified efforts to overrun the last stronghold of Homs, Syria’s revolution...

(Reuters) - From his base in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad can contemplate a broad sweep of Syria clawed back from rebels who once threatened to drive him out. The capital which they targeted is now plastered with posters inviting Syrians to reelect him president. Powerful...

(Zaman Alwasl) Islam Army announced Monday that its fighters had shot down a helicopter by Osa surface-to-air missile system near Damascus. Islam Army said in statement posted online that its fighters had downed a helicopter near Mleiha town...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed Othman Bdaiwi, minister of Local administration and refugee affairs, denied all accusations of Mohamed Yahya Maktabi, the Coalition member, in his complaint against the Minister. In his respond to the complaints,...

By Jasem Al Hamwe; Translation by Maryam Saleh (HAMA)- Syria is considered to be one of the wealthiest Middle Eastern countries in terms of the various resources it offers. Its agricultural, industrial, tourism, and petroleum industries are...

The historic Christian town of Maalula stands a shadow of its former self, abandoned and war-scarred, a month after Syrian government forces expelled Islamist rebels. In the main square, with its posters of President Bashar al-Assad and slogans daubed on walls singing his...

The Syrian opposition’s defense minister has resigned after reports of disagreements with the group’s head, opposition sources said on Monday. Dissident Asaad Mustafa’s resignation from the government-in-exile highlights divisions among President Bashar al-Assad's opponents....

At least 162,000 people have been killed in Syria‘s three-year-old conflict, a monitoring group said on Monday, and thousands more are missing after being captured by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and rebels trying to overthrow him. The pro-opposition, British-based...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Faris;  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl) Martin Lidegaar, Denmark's foreign minister, denied any cooperation between Syrian Intelligence and many European countries as part of anti- terrorism activities. The FM confirmed to Zaman...

BEIRUT (AP) — He began as a local hero on the soccer field, playing for the most popular team of his home city Homs and rising toward national stardom across Syria. But when the uprising against President Bashar Assad began, Abdelbasit Sarout left all of it to lead peaceful protests,...

MARJ EL-KHOKH, Lebanon, (UNHCR) – In the back room of the large home-made tent, Yousra is being made up and having her hair arranged. It will take all afternoon. In the front room her women friends are dancing. At the end of the day, a wedding ceremony will take place in the...

Translation by Dani Murad In a move that aims to stop the fighting between ISIL and FSA army and other Islamic battalions, a delegation from the people of Deir ez-Zor met the leaders of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Thursday....

(Al Jazeera) The chief of Syria's air defence forces, General Hussein Ishaq, has been killed in combat near Damascus, a security official has told news agencies. The general died on Saturday of wounds suffered when rebels attacked Syrian air defence headquarters near the town...

  UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is under pressure to ratchet up aid to nongovernmental organizations that can operate in the vast sections of Syria under opposition control, as most of the humanitarian relief sponsored by the organization ends up in the western slice of...

(UN News Center) Following reports that armed groups cut water supplies in Syria's flashpoint town of Aleppo, leaving at least 2.5 million people with no access to safe water for drinking and sanitation for days, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that such...

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman Saturday, nearing the end of his six-year term, called once again on Hezbollah to withdraw from Syria and commit to the Baabda Declaration, saying cooperation between the president and the resistance group was needed, but within certain limits....

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(Reuters) - One of President Bashar al-Assad's two challengers in next month's election praised his military campaign against Islamist rebels but said Syria must do more to maintain ties with the West and rebuild its economy after three years of war. Hassan al-Nouri said...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl) Many members of the western-backed National Coalition said that the opposition leader Ahmed Jarba has retracted his intention for a second term extension. Source said before that NC...