Europe will “pay the price” if it arms Syrian rebels, Reuters reported President Bashar al-Assad as saying on Monday. “If the Europeans deliver weapons, the backyard of Europe will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for it,” he said in an excerpted interview for German newspaper...

U.S. military action against Syria would carry the risk of inadvertently hitting a chemical weapons site, President Barack Obama told to PBS television in an interview on Monday. “Have we mapped all of the chemical weapons facilities inside of Syria to make sure that we don’t drop a bomb on...

 A FSA official told "Zaman Alwasl" that the Chiefs of Staff in the Supreme Military Council had received a new batch of weapons including anti-tank missiles, Shoulder-fire missiles, besides Russian weapons, without disclosing further information. The source expected that the new...

North Korea is allegedly playing a vital role in the reported use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against the rebels in the ongoing civil war. The North Korean government is believed to have supplied Syria the latest technologies to convert chemical agents into warheads....

  Hamas on Monday urged the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from Syria, saying its involvement in that war is contributing to the "sectarian polarisation" of the region. Hezbollah should focus its efforts on fighting its arch-enemy Israel, said...

  To be lashed by a whip on back, means that you are implementing  Sharia  as Salafist group has alleged in al-Tabqa city, affiliated with Raqqa Province, the same city of the provoking YouTube videos recently, where the province is under control of Islamic groups...

The elected Local Council in the liberated neighborhoods of Aleppo announced the reopening of Civil services Department next Saturday where citizens can register their civil matters of deaths, marriage,divorce in centers of  Al-Ansar, ALShaar and Hanano.  The new...

Well-informed source assured the Saudi Arabia has begun supplying the Syrian rebels with anti-craft missiles "visual-range", two months ago, according to Reuters.   The shoulder-fired missiles were obtained from suppliers in France and Belgium. Source added...

As well as the nuclear dispute, relations with the West and Iran's internal divisions, Rohani also has to cope with an economy damaged by international sanctions and mismanagement and a civil war in  Syria  where it backs President Bashar al-Assad. Better relations with other...

 A veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, will not permit no-fly zones to be imposed over  Syria , Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday. "I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario," Lukashevich told a news briefing, adding...

President Obama’s tack on Syria looks a lot like President George W. Bush’s handling of Iraq and “sounds an awful lot like how Vietnam started,” former Rep. Ron Paul argues in his weekly column. Mr. Paul, Texas Republican, argues that the recent announcement from the Obama...

A member of Oxfam lays flowers in front of the City Hall in Belfast June 17, 2013. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, U.S. President Barack Obama will try to find common ground with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a G8 summit in Northern...

Sadness is written on the face of 45-year-old Jamila, living in the open-air municipal courtyard of Arsal in Lebanon and still traumatised by her escape from Syria's former rebel stronghold Qusayr. Along with her sick husband and three children, she fled the town in Syria's central province...

As the French arrange high-level meetings with the rebel leadership, the U.S. continues to maintain its distance. Gen. Idris talks with The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin. Despite the White House’s public announcement Wednesday that it would provide “military assistance” to the Syrian...

U.S. President Barack Obama faces what could be a frosty G8 meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday after the Russian leader clashed with the West over plans to arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, Obama will try to...

SARAQIB, Syria — The workers arrive by darkness, taking their stations at the vise and the lathe. Soon metal filings and sparks fly, and the stack of their creations grows at their feet: makeshift mortar shells to be fired through barrels salvaged from disabled Syrian Army tanks....

  An official source in the Syrian regime has stressed Sunday that Mohammad Morsi, by cutting off all ties with Syria, has joined the Israel-US-led band of conspiring and instigating against it. Syrian Arab news Agency SANA reported. The source pointed out that Morsi's...

A car bomb has killed an undetermined number of soldiers and wounded at least 20 others at an army checkpoint near a military airport in Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "There are at least 20 soldiers wounded, there are also some dead but we don't know how...

  Jouri was born with congenital disorder as result of chemical raid on al-Bayyada and al-Khaledia neighborhoods of Homs, year ago, laboratory analysis revealed .   Doctors who took biopsy from the 4-month-old in the Jordanian Hospitals said her leg should be...

King Abdullah II vowed Sunday to protect Jordan from the war in Syria, after the United States announced its warplanes and missiles will remain in the kingdom at the end of military exercises. "Should the world not act and help us adequately address this issue, and should this issue become a...