Syrian Kurds made rapid advances in the north on Tuesday, expelling jihadists from a string of villages, as mistrust between Kurds and Arabs grows, a watchdog and activists said. Fighting hit a series of ethnically mixed villages in the northern province of Raqa on the border with...

 Bashar al-Assad had issued on Tuesday a legislative decree to establish an Islamic fund affiliated to  the Ministry of religious endowments,  called  (al-Zakat)to encourage the  charity in the holy month, the regime news agency (SANA) reported....

  ''Our voice chanting the Revolutionary songs is louder than the sound of bullets,'' that's the job of our tent in Salah al-Din suburb in the capital city of North Syria, Aleppo, Activists said to Zaman Alwasl. Despite the war, rebels insisted to keep one of the holy...

 Leaders of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah should be put on trial for their role in the Syrian war, the Syrian opposition said on Tuesday, according to AFP. The remarks came as the Syrian coalition welcomed the EU decision to blacklist Hezbollah's military wing, Al...