AFP- Syria has reached a "critical moment" as the world awaits news of fresh peace talks, China's foreign minister told the warring nation's opposition leader Ahmad Jarba in Beijing Wednesday.

“Allah bless Erdogan, Allah bless the governor, Allah bless Turkey.” Praise for Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is in short supply  amid a wave of anti-government protests  that have rocked the country...

Islamist rebels, who control Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, have detained three female activists, who were freed from the Syrian regime’s prisons via Maloula Nuns' deal, in which 153 female prisoner were freed. Two of them were released, while Yasmin al-Binshi kept...

Jordanian air force fighter jets have destroyed a number of combat vehicles trying to cross into the kingdom from neighboouring Syria, according to the army. A Syrian military source cited by state television in Damascus said, however, that the vehicles that were struck on...