Dutch Foreign Ministry has offered the National Coalition a training course in negotiation skills and conflict resolution in one of its specialized institutes in Netherlands next November, an opposition source told Zaman Alwasl . The training session comes shortly before the...

  Once seen as the capital of Syria's revolution, Homs is now caught in a vicious stalemate between regime and rebel forces. James Harkin, the British Guardian reporter visits a divided city, where kidnappings are rife and chemical disarmament a low priority I first met Abu Ali at...

A Sufi Muslim shrine was blown up in eastern  Syria  on Sunday, opposition activists said, blaming al Qaeda-affiliated militants who have joined in the increasingly sectarian civil war. Militants placed explosives at the shrine of Sheikh Eissa Abdelqader al-Rifaiy in the...

A Syrian newsreader carried on broadcasting live despite two bombs exploding behind him. A startled  Syrian  television presenter kept his show going after two car bombs went off behind him before finally being told to abandon his seat. The devices exploded near...