A senior United Nations team tasked with investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war began a mission to Damascus Wednesday, trying to hammer out with Syrian officials the terms for their investigation. It is the first such trip by international experts, and the...

Shiite movement said resorting to use of mass graves to evade backlash from victims’ families amid growing criticism of its role in bolstering Assad Hezbollah has buried hundreds of its fighters in mass graves in Syria to avoid a backlash from the victims’ families and maintain high...

Qatar's new emir will keep helping Syrian rebels until President Bashar al-Assad's rule ends, Syria's opposition envoy to Doha said on Wednesday, seeking to dampen speculation the rich Gulf state had scaled back its role in supporting the revolt. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has not made...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not going to lose power unless there is foreign intervention amounting to a full-scale war, according to a leading Middle-East politician. Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said with a united army in control of Damascus and the major Syrian...

Syrian authorities are blocking access to the old city of Homs, where trapped civilians are in dire need of food and  medical supplies , the Red Cross said on Wednesday, warning of possible "tragic" consequences. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed last...

Hollande said, the only representative of Syrian people for us is the coalition President of France Francois Hollande received Wednesday Ahmad Jarba, the new head of Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Anadolu agency reported. ...

Syrian regime forces killed 1,242 people including 107 children and 100 women across Syria since the beginning of Ramadan, activists said, according to  Anadolu, the Turkish News Agency. A total of 1,242 people were killed across Syria since the beginning of ...

     The  embattled countryside of Damascus, has been under cruel blockade by the Assad regime for more than a year, during the  siege,  People of the rebel-held areas have been suffering lack of the basic needs for a decent life.  Ghouta, the...

Caretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour said in remarks published on Wednesday that a number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon will move to Germany.   “In cooperation with the Higher Refugee Council, we have started to receive requests from Syrian families who wish to move to...

 Extremists are not just trying to overthrow Assad but to set up an Islamic state on Israel’s doorstep, major general warns   ''An extensive global jihad center is developing right on Israel’s doorstep,'' the IDF’s head of military research Aviv Kochavi said Tuesday...

Bashar al-Assad's militias are "cleansing" towns and villages of their Sunni Muslim inhabitants across the Syrian province of Homs, refugee families and residents have told The Daily Telegraph. The "Shabiha", a loyalist militia drawn largely from the  Syrian  president's...

Hundreds of men who took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad are defecting back to the government side, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. Disillusioned by the Islamist twist that the "revolution" in  Syria  has taken, exhausted after more than two years of conflict...

Arab Islamists and Kurdish militants, two of the most controversial armed groups in Syria’s civil war, for the past week have been battling each other for control of key towns close to the Turkish border after the Kurds announced a plan to declare local autonomy. The United States views both...

 Lebanese government imposed new entry controls on Syrians on Tuesday and said it would begin shutting down unlicensed businesses as refugees continue to pour into the country. As of July 22, the UN says over 633,000 Syrians escaping their war-torn country have crossed into Lebanon....

   Assad's forces had imposed more restrictions on movement and  transportation against the people of Homs, the latest procedure was requesting birth certificate which assured that the person is originally from Homs neighborhoods, according to Zaman Alwasl's local source....

  Syria's top rebel commander is likely to visit the United States next week, U.S.-based Syrian opposition representatives said on Thursday, and he is expected to make a plea for speedy U.S. arms shipments.   General Salim Idriss, who leads the rebel Supreme...

Assad militias intend to expel Sunnis, who live in the rich areas of Homs in order to control their areas. ''It's not a sectarian cleanse this time, it's a cleanse of interests and greed.'' Activist said to Eqtsad, newspaper affiliated to Zaman Alwasl. The systematic arrests...

  Syria's opposition coalition said on Tuesday it still did not have enough sophisticated weapons to turn the tide against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and would try to convince Paris to provide more military help. Speaking ahead of a visit to the United States and the...

CIA could begin shipping arms in the coming weeks after clearance from House and Senate intelligence committees The  CIA  could begin shipping arms to  Syria  in the coming weeks, after two US congressional panels cleared the way for the controversial transfer of...

UNTIL last month the leader of Ahrar al-Sham (the Free Men of Syria), a large Salafist rebel group, went by a  nom de guerre . Then on June 8th Hassan Aboud revealed his real name in an interview with Al Jazeera, the Qatari satellite television channel. Days later he attended a Salafist...