A member of the "National Coalition" revealed torture of Syrian activist by the Turkish Police after being arrested last week over suspicion in his passport. The Media Activist Abu Isaac Al-edilbi filed a complaint to the coalition saying  Turkish Police...

US warns of conflict spreading beyond national borders after Sunni group boasts of new firepower online Sunni jihadist groups in northern  Syria   have secured a large supply of the type of anti-aircraft missiles that the Obama administration has urgently tried to keep away...

  Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region. For the first...

Syria's state news agency is reporting that government forces have captured a suburb of Damascus near the capital's international airport. SANA says troops killed several rebels and destroyed their hideouts in the Ahmadiyeh area on Saturday, two days after a mortar round landed near the...

Al-Bzzalah village, South Lebanon, has buried today the youngest militant in Hezbollah who was killed in Syria . Qasim Fadlallah Al-Bzzal was 16-year-old, according to 'Janoob'- South- Pro-Hezbollah website.  In relevant event, another militant who was killed in Syria,...

Egypt's Islamist president says he is cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and has ordered that Damascus Embassy in Cairo to be closed. Mohammed Morsi told thousands of supporters in a rally held on Saturday that his government is also withdrawing the Egyptian charge d'affaires from...

The founder of the Free Syrian Army expressed his fears through a message to Zaman Alwasl of deviation the Syria Revolution, stressing that the Assad regime can't be toppled as long as the military and political efforts are not at a high level of coordination and unity ....

More than 70 Syrian military officers, including six generals and 22 colonels, have deserted President Bashar al-Assad's army in the past 36 hours and have crossed the border into Turkey, the biggest such defection in months, an official told AFP on Saturday. The defections of the 71 army...

Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that the evidence put forth by the United States of chemical weapons use in Syria apparently doesn't meet stringent criteria for reliability. The Obama administration said this week that it will give lethal aid to Syrian rebels in light of evidence...

Abdulrahman Al-Haj, a member of the National Council and SNC's representative in Aleppo, has delivered an urgent demand to the General Secretariat of the main stream Syrian opposition from rebels and FSA battalions fighting in Aleppo and its countryside, requesting support by one million...

As a group of rebels gathered in an apartment in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, debating the value of the United States’ decision to provide them with weapons, government forces nearby began pounding an opposition-held neighborhood. The opposing events led the group to focus on a...

If the United States and allies genuinely want to change the course of the war in  Syria , it may take considerably more than simply supplying the faltering opposition with weaponry. Western officials say they still believe the ultimate endgame - and possibly the exit of Bashar...

  President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spokesman said. Ben Rhodes did not give details about the military aid other than to say it would be "different in scope and...

A U.S. military source for Sky News Arabic revealed on Friday  that  heavy weapons and anti-aircraft missiles entered Syrian territory, comes in conjunction with the leaks talked about the possibility of imposing a U.S. no-fly zone is limited in Syria, are likely to be...

 Syrian rebels and activists say they fear President Bashar al-Assad's troops could resort to wider use of chemical weapons, unless the United States follows up on its pledge of military support with firm and swift action. After months of equivocating, President  Barack...

The death toll in  Syria  reached at least 93,000 at the end of April, but the true number of victims from the violence now in its third year may be much higher, the  United Nations  human rights office said on Thursday according to Reuters. Navi Pillay, U.N....

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday welcomed a "clear" US statement accusing the Syrian regime of using chemical weapons and said Damascus must let the UN investigate the allegations. "I welcome clear US statement. Urgent that Syria regime should let UN...

  It's a warm day on the Turkish-Syrian border. France's recently recalled ambassador to Syria  is incognito with his deputy and a security agent. After checking the surroundings are clear, the diplomat pulls out a stash of brown envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars....

A senior official in Egypt's presidency says Egyptians are free to join the fight in Syria and will not be prosecuted upon return .   In a response to an Associated Press question Thursday about the government's stance on citizens going to fight alongside Syrian...

WASHINGTON—A U.S. military proposal for arming Syrian rebels also calls for a limited no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced from Jordanian territory to protect Syrian refugees and rebels who would train there, according to U.S. officials. Asked by the White House to develop options...