(Reuters) Syria appeared to have missed a self-imposed deadline to get rid of all its chemical weapons by April 27, as the United Nations announced that more than 92 percent of the arsenal had been shipped out of the country or destroyed. The UN deadline for the total destruction of...

Turkish security forces on Sunday detained an American journalist and two Syrians as they tried to cross a river flowing from Syria into southern Turkey by raft, the army said. The three were spotted on the Asi river near the border province of Hatay, the army said in a...

Rebel mortar fire on government-held districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 21 people and wounded 50 on Sunday, a monitoring group said. "The fire targeted regime-held neighbourhoods, including some in the Old City where the rebels are trying to advance," the...

The head of an international mission to Syria charged with destroying the country's chemical weapons called on President Bashar Assad's government Sunday to ensure it meets a deadline to destroy all its toxic chemicals. Also Sunday, four more candidates announced their candidacy for...

BAGHDAD (AP)- A government spokesman says security forces have ambushed a convoy of fuel tankers trying to illegally enter Iraq from Syria, killing at least eight drivers. Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim says the operation took place near the Iraqi border at dawn Sunday....

  By Eqtsad- Yusra Ahmed Even a grave could become unaffordable in Damascus as houses allowances sharply increase. “It is even impossible to find an affordable grave in Damascus”, that was Mohamed’s reply to a query about houses’...

Jordanian authorities refused on Saturday to allow an opposition figure based in Amman to enter the kingdom after short visit to Istanbul, source told Zaman Alwasl. The national coalition member, Dr. Jawad Abu Hatab, who runs a hospital in Jordan...

Despite a war, the Syrian government appears determined to go ahead with presidential elections on June 3. It is widely believed that President Bashar al-Assad will easily be elected to a seven-year term. The vote is to be held under new rules that block major Syrian opposition figures...

AP, Beirut- Activists say a makeshift bomb dropped from a Syrian government helicopter has killed at least five people, including two children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory says the air raid took place Saturday in the town of Sarmeen in the northwestern province of Idlib. It...

A French government spokesman denied on Sunday a report that it paid a ransom for the release a week ago of four French journalists held captive in Syria for more than 10 months. Focus, a German magazine, published on its website a report that France paid 18 million dollars for their...

  Syria’s rebels seized control Saturday on strategic highway that links Damascus with eastern Syria and Iraqi borders, as they killed dozens of Bashar al-Assad’s forces, rebel group said in statement posted online. Baghdad International highway the vital route to Bashar...

Syria's Aleppo has been hit by a power cut for seven consecutive days, a monitoring group said Friday, the day after some 50 civilians were killed in air raids there. Regime-controlled areas of the city and countryside “have been deprived of electricity for seven days, after the...

  At least 88 rebel and regime forces have been killed in two days of clashes for control of strategic sites in Syria's southern Daraa province, an monitoring group said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in Britain said 45...

Syria maintains an ability to deploy chemical weapons, a senior Western diplomat has said, citing intelligence from Britain, France and the United States. "We have some intelligence showing, that they have not declared everything", a senior diplomat told the Reuters...

Moscow (AP) | Russia on Friday dismissed recent reports of the Syrian government using chemical weapons on rebel-held areas as fabrication. The U.N. Security Council called for an investigation Wednesday over allegations that government forces have attacked rebel-held areas with...

Life in Jordan's Zaatari camp is getting harder for 130,000 Syrian refugees, most of whom have fled fighting in southern Syria. Security has become hard to control in the sprawling, overcrowded camp and refugees are falling victims to strongmen who imposed their power to try to make a...

Controversial amendments to Jordan's anti-terrorism law seek to curb the influence of homegrown Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists fighting the regime of the kingdom's northern neighbour Syria, analysts said. New articles added to the law approved by MPs on Tuesday deem "joining or...

Hezbollah militia has arrested at least 240 people from the besieged neighborhoods of Homs in response to killing of 14 militants in al-Waer neighborhood and seizing 8 corpses two days ago, source told Zaman Alwasl. Activists assured that Hezbollah...

By EA World View | While Syria’s military consolidates its position between Damascus and the Lebanese border, insurgents continued to advance on the southwestern front, taking a key military position on Thursday. Opposition fighters claimed the hilltop position of Brigade 61, the...

Islamist rebels blew up Friday morning Tamico Complex, well-known Assad’s stronghold near Mleiha in the eastern districts of Syrian capital, activists reported. The key Islamist rebel group, Islam Amy, backed by Shabab al-Huda rebel group have detonated the complex, no...