BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Monday between rival jihadi groups in an oil-rich eastern Syrian province bordering Iraq, forcing many residents to flee, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting concentrated on the eastern...

The foreign ministry said Monday that France and Germany intend to prevent Syrians living in their countries from voting in Syria's presidential election, expected to return President Bashar al-Assad to power. Germany and France are "preventing Syrians living in their territory...

Syrian Opposition government on Monday has allocated 250,000 dollars as ‘Instantaneous support' for the rebels of Homs since they evacuated the city after historical deal with Bashar al-Assad’s regime and after 30 months of severe siege and starvation...

Syria's presidential election campaign, launched at the weekend, has transformed the streets of Damascus into a glorification of incumbent Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to easily win the June 3 vote. On the streets, parks and buildings of the city, barely a wall can be seen...

Syrian rebels have agreed to free 1,500 families in exchange for food and the release of jailed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, a newspaper close to his regime said Monday. The reported agreement involves the release of families held by rebels in Adra, a flashpoint town...

CAIRO (AP) — The official spokesman of an al-Qaida-breakaway group has strongly criticized its parent organization's head, Ayman al-Zawahri, for siding with a rival jihadi group in Syria. In an audio message posted on militant websites late Sunday, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani,...

Kuwait's ruler has accepted the resignation of Islamic Affairs Minister Nayef al-Ajmi who was accused by a senior US official of promoting "jihad" in Syria. "I thank the emir for accepting my resignation and understanding its reasons," Ajmi, who also holds the justice portfolio,...

  The US is sending missiles to Syrian rebels as part of a “pilot program” to strengthen the opposition, American media reveals. Washington’s new initiative aims to find out whether it can supply opposition forces in Syria with weapons without them falling into...

Allegations are mounting that chemical weapons attacks in Syria last year have caused newborns to suffer from birth defects. Syrian doctors and activists have circulated a picture of a severely deformed baby girl, reportedly named Fatima Abdulghafar, who was recently born in...

Israel's army on Sunday declared part of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights a closed military zone, fearing battles on the Syrian side would spill over the ceasefire line. An army spokeswoman told AFP the area around the Quneitra crossing was closed "for security reasons."...

Translation by Dani Murad With great resentment, people of Nubul and Zahra, the Shiite villages in northern Aleppo, which were rumored to be under tight siege by rebels, have expressed their anger of the relief aid sent by regime forces recently....

(Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group has wrested control of key parts of the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor from other rebel groups, activists said on Sunday, worsening infighting that has handicapped the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. More than 100,000...

(Reuters) - A top U.N. aid official, frustrated by obstacles to humanitarian aid in Syria , asked on Friday if a million people needed to be killed and neighboring states collapse before the world would take action to stop the conflict. John Ging, director of operations at...

By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Few days ago The young Syrian-Palestinian cartoonist Hani Abbas was fannounced the winner of the “Press Cartoonist Award”, the highest award for Caricature in the world, organized by the Cartoonists for...

AFP- More than 100,000 civilians have fled the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor because of fierce clashes between rival jihadist groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The British-based monitoring group also said the clashes between Al-Qaeda affiliate...

Damascus, May 10 (IANS) The campaign for Syria's presidential elections will officially kick off May 11, the supreme constitutional court said Saturday. The court notified the final three candidates for the elections to run their campaigns from May 11 to June 2, a day ahead of the...

By EA World View - A story that illustrates the “patchwork war”, defying immediate headlines that either side is “winning” in Syria’s 38-month conflict…. While the Syrian regime has proclaimed victory in its Qalamoun offensive between Damascus and the Lebanese border, insurgents...

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HOMS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians streamed into war-battered parts of the central city of Homs for the first time in nearly two years Saturday, checking their homes after rebels left as part of a deal allowing them to safely withdraw as pro-government forces took the city....

A senior UN aid official accused the Syrian government on Friday of blockading medical supplies from convoys bound for opposition-held areas and called for a fresh international push to end the conflict. "Medical supplies are being removed from convoys as part of a strategy to...