Baghdad, June 15 (IANS) Kurdish forces took control of a border crossing point with Syria, as Iraqi security forces fought insurgent groups trying to seize an ethnically mixed city in the country's northern province of Nineveh, military sources said Sunday. The Kurdish forces,...

  Adnan Qassar, Captain of the Syrian Equestrian team, who was detained in 1993, has been freed, activists and media outlets reported. Previous Interview with Qassar published on May 29 2013 Exclusive Interview with Assad's rival Adnan Qassar...

By Abdullah Raja; Translation by Dani Murad In an exclusive interview with Zaman Alwasl , the Defense Minister for Syria's interim government, Asaad Mustafa, said that his days as a defense minister was no doubt the most difficult part of his life, pointing out that he resigned...

BEIRUT (Reuters): Syrian government forces, assisted by Hezbollah, have retaken the village of Kasab on the border with Turkey and in the coastal heartland of President Bashar Assad's Alawite minority sect, an activist group and state media said. The withdrawal of most rebel...

BEIRUT: One of the few remaining hospitals in rebel-held Aleppo will be forced to close its doors at the end of the month, after a major international NGO unexpectedly withdrew funding for the facility, leaving half a million people with access to only rudimentary field...

  Nine top officers from the moderate Free Syrian Army resigned Saturday over shortages and mismanagement of military aid from donor countries to their uprising against President Bashar Assad. "We seek your (the rebels') forgiveness in...

(Zaman Alwasl)- In a statement posted Online, rebels of the Southern Front claimed taking full control of strategic hill in Daraa province, leaving dozens dead. Activists said nearly 100 soldiers of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been killed...

(AFP)- A bomb attack targeting a weapons bazaar in eastern Syria close to the Iraqi border killed 30 "terrorists" on Saturday, state television reported. "A big explosion hits a terrorist arms market in Mayadeen, killing 30 terrorists and wounding dozens of others," the...

  (AP)- Jordanian border guards opened fire on four vehicles trying to enter illegally from Syria after they ignored orders to stop, the state-run news agency reported Saturday, without saying whether anyone was killed or wounded in the incident....

BEIRUT (AP) — The al-Qaida-breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has prevented food and medical supplies from reaching some neighborhoods in an eastern Syrian city and has ceased some of its operations in Syria while waiting for weapons to arrive from neighboring Iraq,...

By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - European Union countries should help Italy absorb the huge number of migrants arriving by boat from North Africa, by agreeing to take in people rescued in international waters, a U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman said on Friday. The EU...

The FBI is investigating men of Somali background who have travelled from the United States to Syria to fight with rebel groups against President Bashar al-Assad. Kyle Loven, a spokesman for the FBI's Minneapolis office, said on Thursday that in the last few months the Bureau...

    (Reuters)- The Syria branch of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has put fighting on hold in Syria while it brings in weapons seized inside neighboring Iraq, a monitoring group that tracks the violence said on Friday. ISIS,...

TAMPA, Florida (AP) — When Lina Safar moved from her native Syria to Florida with her U.S.-born husband in 2010, she assumed she would return occasionally, see her family, walk in her neighborhood and shop at her favorite markets. A year later, her country was engulfed by civil...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to take in another 10,000 refugees from Syria, doubling the number of Syrians it is offering to shelter from their country's bloody conflict. The decision was announced Thursday at a meeting of officials from Germany's 16 states, which share...

 Translation by Dani Murad Deep concerns and fear arise among activists as Deir al-Zour, Syria’s second major city after Raqqa, might also fall as a prey in the hands of The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) ‘Dubbed: Daesh’ In a surprising move, ISIS has totally...

Rebels launched an offensive on Bashar al-Assad’s troops and Hezbollah fighters in Rankous town in Qalamoun near the border with Lebanon Thursday, activists said Last April,  Assad's troops backed by Hezbollah fighters captured Rankous...

Nearly 1,000 fighters from al-Qardaha, Bashar al-Assad’s hometown, have been killed during the three-year conflict, pro-regime websites reported. The traditional home of the Assad family, which has ruled Syria since 1970, is  a main supplier for...

By Tara Carmichael BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 50,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are working, often in dire conditions and for 12 hours a day, to pay for food and shelter for their families, aid organisation CARE said. More than a million Syrian refugees live...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) In a show off video , Iraqi militias fighting with Syrian regime inside the country, announced the formation of “Alawite Anger Squad” in an attempt to raise the morals of Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki’s regime after...