The Syrian regime was forced to withdraw some of its forces from the central cities of Hama and Idlib to bolster its presence in the more strategic coastal city of Latakia, which has come under heavy offensive by the opposition forces, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Thursday,...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday Washington was evaluating whether to continue its role in Middle East peace talks, signaling his patience with the Israelis and Palestinians was running out. Speaking during a visit to Morocco after a week of setbacks, Kerry said...

Members of the Islamic Front spoke with two elderly Armenian women at Syria’s border crossing with Turkey in the northern Latakia province town of Kasab, aiming to ease a spate of international concern over the fate of Syria’s minorities in newly contested corner of northern Latakia....

Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, showing footage of an apparently unconscious man lying on a bed and being treated by medics. The alleged attack on the neighborhood of Jobar in the capital...

Mortar fire killed at least six people in a suburb of the Syrian capital Thursday, activists and state media said, amid reports that clashes in a coastal province killed a top foreign fighter who was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Syria's state news agency said four mortar rounds...

International powers who support the Syrian opposition have firmly rebuffed any idea of a presidential election organized by the Syrian government in the midst of a civil war, describing the plans as a "parody of democracy" that would kill peace talks. The Friends of Syria, an...

Pro-opposition news site All4Syria reported Wednesday on the emergence of a new Iraqi militia entitled the Assad Allah al-Ghalib Brigade fighting alongside regime forces in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. Rebel faction Failaq al-Rahman released a video Wednesday of a...

Syrian government forces are combatting rebels on the road connecting Damascus and the southeastern, Druze-majority city of Suweideh on Thursday, as rebel groups destroyed sections of the road with explosives planted in sewage drains. The clashes centered in the towns of Buraq...

Syrian government forces appeared to prepare for a major assault on the heavily contested town of al-Mleiha, 10 kilometers East of Damascus, on Thursday morning, with pro-Assad news site Damascus Al-Aan reporting that the Syrian army had shelled more than 200 targets in the...

Dr. Abdul Baset Seda, a member in the political committee of the Syrian coalition criticized the opposition for not being able to draw a political line for the revolution. The former president of the National Council, in an interview with Zaman Alwasl, said that when the national...

The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has exceeded one million, in what the UN refugee agency calls a "devastating milestone" for a small country with depleted resources and brewing sectarian tension. Refugees from Syria, half of them children, now equal a quarter of...

The response was immediate and unequivocal: Weeks after the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and mere days after popular protests spread across Egypt, Syria’s president insisted his country would not be next. Assad claimed his regime was ‘very closely linked to...

Syria is charging in a letter to the United Nations that opposition groups are planning a toxic gas attack in a rebel-held area near Damascus so they can then blame it on government security forces. In a letter dated March 25 and circulated by the U.N. this week, Syria's...

  On February 22, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2139 demanded that all parties, “in particular the Syrian authorities” open corridors for humanitarian aid across conflict lines. More than a month later, little has changed. In several Damascus suburbs,...

Reports are circulating of fighting, the heaviest in weeks, in the Jobar suburb of Damascus. Rebels from Damascus suburbs with local ceasefires are said to have joined colleagues in the area. EA Worldview

Death toll in the Syrian conflict has exceeded 150,000, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , which has documented violence on the ground since peaceful protests first broke out on March 2011 before quickly evolving into a raging war. The activist group...

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Poverty, deprivation and siege have not prevented Palestinians in Yarmouk camp from celebrating the Land Day that comes on the 30th of March. The celebration started on Sunday morning in festive atmosphere, where the Palestinian revolutionary songs were chanting...

At least 54 people, including four children, have been killed in air and ground operations across Syria by President Bashar al-Assad's regime on Monday, opposition activists have claimed. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights...