Rami Makhlouf, the well known businessman, who is considered the economical and financial cover for Assad family, come back strongly to lights as the first choice to re-build Syria and to observe the humanitarian corridors for aid and relief, after managing to control them, sources...

Chechen-led faction Jaish al-Muhajireen wal Ansar (JMA) has released a video showing its fighters giving aid to civilians in Kafr Hamra, north of Aleppo city. JMA helped a Syrian brigade, Nuraddin az-Zinki, capture Kafr Hamra last month. The Chechen-led faction is not aligned to any...

Syria’s key opposition groups could not reach a settlement to end up the dilemma erupted over rebel chief dismissal two weeks ago, activists said. The last  72-hour meeting in Istanbul between the National Coalition chief, Ahmad Jarba, and top field commanders of...

 After three years of grinding conflict, the destruction of whole city districts and an exodus of refugees all triggered by an uprising against his rule, Bashar al-Assad is quietly preparing to be re-elected. The Syrian president has not yet announced whether he will stand for a...

  Assad’s planes Thursday renewed raids on the embattled city of Yabrud, the last rebel stronghold in the Qalamoun region near the border with Lebanon. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for human Rights reported eight air raids on the area, which regime troops are...

Negotiators have lost contact with a group of nuns kidnapped from a Syrian town last year after their captors moved them, a source told AFP on Thursday. The 13 nuns and three maids were kidnapped from the famed Christian hamlet of Maalula last year and transported to the nearby town of...

Fierce clashes raged around the town of Morek on the strategic road between Hama and Idlib, which the army needs in order to supply a base in the province. The army has been trying to capture Morek and secure the road, but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

At least five people were killed and more than 20 wounded on Thursday in a bomb blast near a security headquarters in central Syria's city of Hama, a monitor said. "A truck packed with explosives detonated... near a branch of the military intelligence, killing at least five people and...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has expressed his "solidarity" with Russian President Vladimir Putin's position on the crisis in Ukraine, state media reported on Thursday. In a telegram, Assad "expressed... Syria's solidarity with Putin's efforts to restore security and stability to...

A haunting video, following a young British girl whose life descends into disarray when  conflict breaks out in London, is capturing attention worldwide this week. The video , by  Save the Children UK , was released in the lead-up to the third...

At least 15 people were killed and 12 others wounded in a car bomb blast in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, an NGO said. "At least 15 people were killed and 12 others injured in the Armenian district, which is home to mostly Christians and Alawites," said Rami Abdel...

 The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it has ordered Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari to remain within a 25-mile (40-km) radius of New York City, similar to restrictions that apply to Iranian and North Korean envoys. A pro-opposition Syrian-American group,...

Cases of serious suffocation reported in Deir al-Zour’s field hospitals following a regime chlorine attack Tuesday evening, according to medical sources. A number of rebels with symptoms of asphyxia, and Nervosism were rushed to field hospitals from al-Rushdia...

Syria’s key opposition group agreed on settlement ending up the dilemma has erupted since the dismissal of the Military council chief two weeks ago, activists said. The last 48-hour meetings between the National Coalition chief, Ahmad Jarba, and top field commanders of the...

Widespread attacks and sieges on civilian areas in Syria by pro-Government forces are leading to mass casualties, malnutrition and starvation, according to the latest report of the independent international Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, due to be presented to the...

    Evidence shows chemical weapons used in two attacks came from the Syrian government's stockpiles, a panel of U.N. investigators said Wednesday in a new report that needled world powers as deserving some of the blame for the country's atrocities because of their...

68 deaths in Urology section within 3 months, in the national hospital in al-Raqqa, among them a child and 13 women, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Those deaths resulted from breaking down of 15 medical instruments and machin related to renal function...

Israel's army said Wednesday it struck two members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as they tried to plant a bomb near the Israeli-Syrian border. "Earlier today, two Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists were identified attempting to plant an explosive device near the Israel-Syria...

Syria carried out air raids inside Lebanon on Wednesday close to the Syrian border and near one of the last rebel-held Syrian border towns, Lebanese security sources said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damages from the air strikes, which the sources said appeared to...

Sham News has  published an interview  with the deputy Amir of Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, Abdul Karim Krymsky, a Crimean Tatar, in which he criticizes the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham for their behavior towards people in Aleppo. Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar is led...