Syrian government forces are using a powerful type of cluster munition rocket not seen before in the conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. The new use of cluster munitions is causing civilian casualties and adding to the country’s already devastating legacy of unexploded...

  A “barrel bomb” strike near a school in Deraa killed at least 18 people Tuesday as the crude devices rained down on several other parts of the country The Britain-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said the casualty figure was likely to rise, due to the severe...

Violent clashes between Syrian opposition factions and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) broke out in early January in different areas of northern Syria. The clashes followed ISIS’s preparations to storm the town of Atarib and the border crossing at Bab al-Hawa to Aleppo’s...

Three years after its revolution sparked the Arab Spring, and following political and security upheavals that nearly nullified its achievements, Tunisia succeeded in peacefully declaring the birth of its second republic. On January 26, the constituent assembly ratified the new...

Following nine days of talks, the first round of the Geneva II conference ended with little progress toward solving Syria’s political crisis. On February 10, 2014, UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi announced a new round of negotiations. The first round prompted all to assess and question what...

Despite a forthcoming review of options in the deteriorating  Syria  crisis, the White House on Tuesday signaled that President  Barack Obama  remains wary of any direct U.S. involvement in the three-year-old civil war. U.S. policy toward  Syria...

A large explosion near an Iranian cultural center in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Wednesday killed at least four people and wounded 19, security sources said. Security sources said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a car bomb and a motorcycle...

Hundreds of people from the besieged city of Homs have demonstrated Tuesday against recent truce agreed with Bashar al-Assad regime, saying it is a new conspiracy against Syrian people to end the revolution and to get the benefits of starvation policy, activists said....

In video statement posted online a group of 9 Free Syrian Army commanders said Gen. Salim Idriss dismissal is void, accusing the opposition Interim Defence Ministry of dispersing the rows of Joint Chiefs of Staff and revolutionary groups on the battlefields. The...

 The United States is opposed to the supply of shoulder-fired missiles, capable of taking down warplanes, to rebel forces in  Syria , a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday. The official, traveling with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in ...

The Syrian National Coalition  has expressed “deep concern”  over the fate of more than 200 men, evacuated from the Old City of Homs earlier this month, who are still detained by Syrian authorities. United Nations observers say 335 men were held among the 1,400 civilians...

Video — too graphic to be posted — testifies to the  horrific deaths of children  in a bombing by Syrian forces of a school in Muzayrib in Daraa Province. Other footage illustrates the brutality of the attack. ( EA world view)

Syrian government forces seized a village inhabited by President Bashar al-Assad's minority community from Islamist fighters in a central province on Tuesday, state media said. Insurgents including fighters from Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa and other Islamist groups had taken...

It is an everyday occurrence at border crossings out of Syria, but for four-year-old Marwan, it must have been terrifying. After being temporarily separated from his family at the remote Hagallat crossing on Sunday, he was found by staff from the UN's refugee agency. Andrew...

Syria’s army and rebels have agreed local truces in key flashpoints around Damascus, despite regime and opposition representatives failing to make any progress in Geneva peace talks. In the southern suburb of Babila, AFP journalists Monday saw rebels and soldiers – all...

U.N. workers on Sunday found a four-year-old Syrian boy crossing the Jordanian desert to be with his parents, in the latest poignant story emerging from the country’s bitter civil war that has left more than 130,000 people dead. “Here 4 year old Marwan, who was temporarily separated...

Four members of a Syrian family were stabbed to death on Monday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, national media outlets reported. Amin Ezzedine, Alexandria’s head of security, told Egypt’s Alhayat television that after their murder, the Syrian family’s house was set on fire. The...

Syrian Revolution General Commission reported Monday sudden withdrawal for the State of Iraq and al-Sham’s militants from its strongholds in costal area. Abu Adham, battalion commander in rebel-held Salma village of Latakia Mountains, said ISIS fighters without warning...

  Al Qaeda splinter group the State of Iraq an al-Sham has tortured to death a prominent commander of Suqour al-Sham brigades in Badiyat al-Shaer in Homs province, despite the newly truce between ISIS and Suqour al-Sham Brigades two weeks ago.   Abu...

From the moment we cross the Turkish border into Syria, evidence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's draconian and brutal rule lingers. More than a month after the group was driven from the town of Addana, residents here drive through the streets, pointing out where...