The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper. In an interview with daily newspaper As-Safir, Hassan Nasrallah also said the threat of bombings in...

A recent UNRWA report detailed the ‘economic catastrophe’ wrought by the Syrian conflict. If the conflict were to end today, the UN agency said, Syria’s economy would take 30 years to recover to 2010 levels. A chunk of that devastation is measured in the years...

  More than 30 rebels including field commanders were killed Sunday in a huge explosion in the country's central province of Homs. Homs-based activists said the huge explosion at the Jouret al- Shayah area in the old quarter of Homs was caused by a government troops' Grad missile...

The Western-backed opposition Syrian National Coalition held elections for the body’s political commission and its health, education and interior ministers on Sunday during the second day of a three-day conference in Istanbul. Dr. Muhi al-Din Bananeh won Education portfolio...

The Islamic Front’s Ansar a-Sham released a video Saturday purporting to show its fighters transporting Armenian citizens from the northwestern Syrian town of Kessab to meet relatives on the Turkish border, in an apparent response to public concerns over the fate of Kessab’s Armenian...

Pro-rebel media on Sunday denied reports that Syrian forces had seized a-Ta’aneh hill overlooking the Sheikh Najar industrial area in northern Aleppo, five kilometers east of the Aleppo Central Prison. The pro-government newspaper al-Watan called Saturday’s campaign for...

Syrian government forces have   launched a campaign   to uproot rebel forces from the areas of Eastern and Western Ghouta in Outer Damascus in order to secure the Syrian capital and the route to the Damascus International Airport, according to pro-Assad Lebanese daily...

One Syrian was killed and two hospitalized while 28 members of Jordanian security forces were injured during a protest inside Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan Saturday. Accounts of the incident differ between Jordanian security forces and Syrian activists. Jordanian...

Two people were killed when mortar fire hit the grounds of the Damascus Opera House in the Syrian capital, state media said on Sunday. Government forces are also battling rebels in Damascus' outskirts including the eastern suburb of Mleiha, which saw heavy fighting on...

The U.S. government is finalizing a plan to increase training and small-arms shipments for Syrian rebels, two U.S. security sources said on Friday, as Syrian government troops gain momentum following the collapse of U.S.-backed peace talks. The United States would increase...

European Union foreign ministers have gathered in Athens for the second day of an informal meeting where attention has focused on the crisis in Ukraine and the civil war in Syria. Ministers from EU candidate countries were also joining Saturday's talks. The situation in Ukraine...

The head of the mission for destroying Syria's chemical weapons has told the United Nations Security Council that Syria can still meet the April 27 deadline to remove all chemical agents out of the country that are due to be destroyed by June 30, UN diplomats said. Syria has...

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Syrian Revolution has lost one of its greatest mothers, who was unknown as she did not care about fame and appearing before cameras . Mariam al-Sharif, or Om Ismail, from Kafr Nabodah in Hama, was a unique icon of women, who sacrificed her time, effort and life for...

Turkey on Friday fired artillery into Syria to retaliate after cross-border shelling hit its territory without causing injuries or damage, the army said. "Six shells hit in Yayladadi in Hatay province and caused no damage," said the Turkish armed forces in a statement. "In...

Islamist rebels in Syria have retaken a town from President Bashar al-Assad's forces, activists said on Friday, in part of an offensive along a stretch of the main highway linking Damascus to the northern city of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels killed...

The Syrian regime was forced to withdraw some of its forces from the central cities of Hama and Idlib to bolster its presence in the more strategic coastal city of Latakia, which has come under heavy offensive by the opposition forces, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Thursday,...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday Washington was evaluating whether to continue its role in Middle East peace talks, signaling his patience with the Israelis and Palestinians was running out. Speaking during a visit to Morocco after a week of setbacks, Kerry said...

Members of the Islamic Front spoke with two elderly Armenian women at Syria’s border crossing with Turkey in the northern Latakia province town of Kasab, aiming to ease a spate of international concern over the fate of Syria’s minorities in newly contested corner of northern Latakia....