GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency is warning that the spiraling refugee crisis brought on by Syria's civil war could pose a serious threat to Lebanon's security and destabilize the entire region unless donors quickly provide the unfunded 70 percent of the $3.74...

(Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusar Ahmed) Opposition’s fighting battalions arrested in Jobar front a Syrian young man called Rami al-Sha’ar, from Salihiya neighborhood in Damascus, during his fighting with Aba al-Fadel al-Abbas militia,...

GIOIA TAURO, Italy (AP) — Cargo containers carrying hundreds of tons of Syrian chemical weapons were loaded onto a U.S. cargo ship Wednesday for destruction at sea, one of the final phases of the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapon stockpile. The chemicals had...

Reporting by Faris Al Rfai; Translation by Dani Murad With the largest poster for the Syrian revolution ever made, Tamer Turkmani, a 24 years old young man, created a panoramic poster that features pictures of 50 thousand martyrs, including...

(Reporting by Ahmad Primo and Al Hussein Al Shishakli) (Zaman Alwasl)- Former Syrian Prime Minister announced he would not run for the National Coalition elections planned this week since he had not find the consensus amid the key opposition group,...

BEIRUT (AP) — The al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captured a key Syrian town near the Iraq border from other rebels on Tuesday and advanced toward a stronghold of its main jihadi rivals, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of the al Qaeda offshoot now calling itself the Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to the "caliphate" it has declared on captured Syrian and Iraqi soil. Proclaiming a "new era" in which Muslims will ultimately...

(Zaman Alwasl)-   Islam Army, main unit of the Islamic Front, Tuesday expelled militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria from al-Marj suburbs in the Eastern Ghouta, rebel source told Zaman Alwasl. Islam Army took control of Mayda’a...

Lebanon is acting in a "blatantly discriminatory" manner by denying access to Palestinians fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday. The watchdog said Lebanon has imposed increasingly onerous entry requirements at the border...

BEIRUT (AP) — The al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captured a key Syrian town near the Iraq border from other rebels on Tuesday and advanced toward a stronghold of its main jihadi rivals, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...

GIOIA TAURO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. ship MV Cape Ray arrived Tuesday in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro for the unprecedented transfer and destruction of about 1,300 tons of Syrian chemical weapons. The 648-foot (197.5-meter) U.S. government cargo ship has been fitted...

Syrian rebels, including the main Islamist factions, said Monday the creation of a caliphate by the Islamic State (IS) was "null and void". "We see that the announcement by the rejectionists of a caliphate is null and void, legally and logically," the groups said in a statement,...

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(AFP)- The Syrian government signed a deal with a Russian firm Monday for the first phase of an irrigation project for the drought-hit northeast of the war-torn country, state media said. The project, which had been planned before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Monday against stepping up support for Syria's opposition, saying it would only bolster a caliphate declared by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in part of Iraq and Syria. Baghdad called for international...

      (Zaman Alwasl) – Wife of the first Syrian Army defectors denied opposition claims over allocating a monthly salary for her displaced family. Ghufran Hijazi wife of Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush, who still in Syrian regime’s...

(AFP)- Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday appealed for international support to help his country deal with regional turmoil after jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria declared an "Islamic caliphate". "It is important that the international community continue to support...

(Reuters) - Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq , a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot...

An airstrike in the northern Syrian province of Idlib killed 30 people, including 3 children, on Sunday as Regime’s helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held town of Salqeen, activist said. The attack struck the town main market at sunset while people...

BEIRUT (AP) — Up to 7,000 people, mostly rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad, have been killed in infighting among rival Islamic groups in Syria across opposition-held territory in the north, an activist group said in a report Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian...