The scale of the Syrian tragedy is immense. The story is often reduced to numbers: deaths, refugees, sick and wounded. Behind these figures are real people. Rabab Sabbagh, an early revolutionary from Homs, is relatively privileged; she has a job and lives in a proper...

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(Reuters) - Syria is descending into a Somalia-style failed state run by warlords which poses a grave threat to the future of the Middle East, former peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said. Brahimi, who stepped down a week ago after the failure of peace talks he mediated in...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Alwasl obtained a copy of the agenda for the Authority of the General National Syrian conference for the independent National decision, while preparing for its foundation conference. A source from inside...

  Reporting by Abdullah Raja   (Zaman Alwasl)-   Sources refuted rumors saying that former Free Syrian Army leader had left north Syria to Arab Gulf after being ousted last February. General Salim Idriss still a military...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The Islamic Front, Syria’s main rebel group, has merged its factions in Aleppo in four sectors in order to unify efforts in war-torn province, rebel sources said. This step aimed to have the same formation of regular armies,...

Hundreds of Syrians have been released from government prisons after an amnesty granted by President Bashar al-Assad to mark his re-election this week, a monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 320 prisoners were released from northern Aleppo...

(Zaman Alwasl)- A document, obtained by Zaman Alwasl, showed main points rebels and regime forces agreed on to reach a ceasefire truce in al-Waer neighborhood near the central city of Homs. The document called for the withdrawal of rebel and...

ALEPPO (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian army helicopters dropped barrel bombs on several neighborhoods in Aleppo on Friday, killing at least 4 people and dozens wounded, opposition activists and monitoring group said. Zaman Alwasl reporter said 4 people were...

Guided more by what they can hear than see, Syrian troops and rebels are battling in the bowels of Damascus, digging tunnels in a campaign to control the eastern entrance to the capital. This is the suburb of Jobar, next to Abassid Square, a stronghold of President Bashar...

(Middle East Monitor)- The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the death of 3,204 people in Syria in the month of May alone, 66 per cent of who were civilians. The forces of the Syrian regime killed 1,795 civilians, including 290 children and 173 women....

  ALEPPO, Syria — Standing amid dust and rubble, Abu Ahmad remembers better times in Hanano, a neighborhood in east Aleppo. "I still miss the old men there, sitting on the streets, inviting strangers to have tea with them," said the 28-year-old former computer programmer....

BEIRUT (AP) — The chief of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group has hailed Bashar Assad's victory in Syria's presidential election this week, saying the "massive" turnout shows the war and the West's conspiracy against Syria have failed. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah — a staunch Assad...

(Reuters) - France said on Thursday samples it had collected suggesting Syrian government forces had used chlorine gas in the country's civil war may not prove to be conclusive and would need to be cross-checked with other information to determine its use. The Organization...

  A well-informed source says 450 detainees with ‘Terrorism charges’ by Syrian regime to be released on Friday from Adra prison near Damascus. Lawyer and Human rights advocate Michel Shammas said other 80 female detainees  would be freed...

    DAMASCUS, Syria — The temperature had exceeded 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Syrian capital. Traveling to the office of a government official required circumventing multiple blocked roads. The taxi driver took the...

Austrian authorities have arrested a man suspected of radicalising Muslims and recruiting them to fight in Syria, a provincial state prosecutor said on Thursday. A spokesman for the prosecutors’ office in Graz, Austria’s second city, said the suspect was detained two days ago...

  (Al Arabiya News)- French President François Hollande on Thursday said more than 30 French nationals who went to fight in Syria have been killed, AFP reported. During an address to the G7 summit in Brussels, Hollande called for increased cooperation and...

    (Writing by Sham Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) UNESCO held a meeting titled “Rallying the International Community to Safeguard Syria’s Cultural Heritage”, in the organization headquarter in Paris between 26-28 May, 2014....

(Reuters) - Inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal have asked President Bashar al-Assad's government to clarify disparities in its original declaration on its cache of toxic gas, U.N. diplomats said on Wednesday. The envoys were citing...