A senior Syrian official said nobody can stop embattled President Bashar al-Assad from seeking re-election and that a government team has been formed for peace talks, in an exclusive interview Thursday with AFP. "Nobody has the right to interfere and say he must run or he should not...

  For all the attention given to the issue of chemical weapons in Syria the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of deaths and injuries - especially civilian deaths and injuries - are caused by conventional weapons. Many of them - like the barrel bombs reportedly...

  Iraq: Syria's Kurds will send two delegations to upcoming peace talks, one with the opposition coalition and another with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad, opposition leader Ahmed Jarba said Friday. "The Kurds will participate in the Geneva meeting in two...

  Negotiators have failed to reach an agreement on whether Iran should be invited to Syria peace talks in Geneva next month, U.N. and Arab League envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday. Brahimi said the delegations to the Geneva 2 conference have been agreed upon...

Assad forces pounded Syrian mosque in the embattled Al Wa'er neighborhood of Homs during Friday's prayer (Muslim's weekly prayer), killing the mosque Imam and unknown number of worshipers, activists reported. Sheikh Safwan Masharekah, Al Omari Mosque’s Imam, had been killed...

  Russia on Friday blocked a US-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government's increasing military offensive on Aleppo, diplomats said. The move heightened diplomatic tensions ahead of a key Russia-US-UN meeting in Geneva on Friday on...

    The commander of Syria's main Western-backed rebel group has urged all opposition fighters to join ranks in the struggle against President Bashar Assad's forces, pledging to do everything he can to stave off rebel infighting. In remarks broadcast Friday...

 Senior Syrian opposition figures are questioning whether they should attend peace talks next month following U.S. warnings that the swift departure of President Bashar al-Assad from power cannot be guaranteed, opposition sources said on Friday. Speaking after meeting U.S....

Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria will not accept any results that come from peace talks next month to end the civil war, its chief said in an Al-Jazeera television interview to be aired Thursday. "We will not recognise any results that come out of the Geneva 2 conference," Al-Jazeera's...

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Thursday demanded the release of leading Syrian women's rights campaigner Razan Zeitouneh and three fellow activists, abducted last week by unknown kidnappers. "We have all got to demand that they be released," Brahimi told activists from...

Syrian government forces are waging a systematic campaign of enforced disappearances to terrorise the population, amounting to a crime against humanity, a UN-mandated probe said Thursday. "Enforced disappearances are perpetrated as part of a widespread campaign of terror against the...

The body of a British doctor whose death in a Syrian jail was announced this week will be transported to Britain's embassy in Beirut, Syria's deputy foreign minister told AFP Thursday. "At the family's request, the Syrian authorities and International Committee of the Red Cross are...

 A campaign launched by the Red Crescent Authority of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for Syrian refugees who are facing the severe cold wave in Syria's neighbouring countries, has raised 18.1 million dirhams ($4.9 million) in cash. Ateeq Al Falahi, secretary-general of the Red...

  Syrian warplanes pounded the northern Aleppo province for a fifth consecutive day on Thursday targeting its rebel-held villages, activists reported.   At least 10 people were killed in the latest attacks, among them are four women and two children, the Syrian...

Iran  and  Russia  have used their influence on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to get visas for U.N. aid workers and improve access for convoys in  Syria , but much remains to be done, senior European officials told Reuters on Thursday. U.S....

Abu Fadhl al-Abbas, Shiite militant group, opened fire Wednesday on civilians who were fleeing Eastern Ghouta to Beit Sahm, south Damascus, killing at least 30 people, local activists said. The small town mediation committee was preparing to rescue tens of families...

Since year ago, al-Qaeda main branch in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, had kidnapped 18 Syrian civilians from Durze community in al-Thaala village near Umm Walad in Daraa, despite the fact that the inhabitants of this village played an important role in providing aid and relief to Daraa...

  The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution on Wednesday expressing outrage at “widespread and systematic gross violations” by Syrian authorities, the Associated Press reported.   The resolution, initiated by Saudi Arabia on behalf of dozens of states including...

Amnesty International has accused an al-Qaeda-linked group that controls large areas of northern Syria of torturing and killing detainees in secret prisons. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has "ruthlessly flouted the rights of local people", the rights group said...

Syrian opposition activists surfaced online footage for most famous Russian Military plane Il-76 which usually use as an airborne refueling tanker or as a command center but its seems for different purpose in Aleppo province, according to Tahrir Souri group. Syrian Air...