Fire by snipers loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is blocking efforts to evacuate 12 Syrian and Lebanese Orthodox nuns from their convent in the town of Maalula, which was overrun by rebels on Monday, Al Arabiya News Channel reported Tuesday, citing rebel sources....

International aid agency Oxfam on Tuesday launched a “12 Days of Giving” appeal to help destitute Syrian refugee families in Jordan and Lebanon survive the region’s harsh winter months.   “Oxfam will be doing the best they can by delivering winter kits to help...

Lebanon's Hezbollah militia has conducted negotiations with armed opposition to release 11 militants who were captured during the ongoing battles near Damascus, according to website loyal to the Iran proxy in Syria. No more details have been revealed when or where yet,...

Southern Countryside of Damascus city has been under unprecedented fierce invasion by the Syrian regime, Hezbollah and Abo al-fadhl al-Abbas militia, many towns there were at the brink of falling in their hands.   “fighters have quickly learnt from what...

Assad forces stormed Monday the campus of Damascus University, arresting number of anti-regime students, according to Revolution General Commission. The 32-month-old war in Syria has emboldened a state of fear among university students who are against Bashar al-Assad, many...

Deputy Leader of the opposition National Coalition and Comptroller General of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood has accused the United States policy in Syria of disappointing the Syrian People at all aspects not only in the military support. In special interview with Zaman...

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has warned that one million people in crisis-hit Syria remain without food. “A conservative estimate is a million people without food,” said a senior Red Cross official on Monday. Simon...

Deaths and injuries were reported on Tuesday after a suicide bomber blew himself up in central Damascus, Syrian state television said. “A terrorist suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in the Jebbeh district of the Jisr al-Abyad neighborhood, causing...

Residents of a village in eastern Lebanon forced hundreds of Syrian refugees from an informal campsite on Monday, setting fire to tents after accusing them of raping a mentally-disabled man. But a doctor who examined the man said there was no evidence he was attacked, and one resident of the...

Islamist fighters in Syria have taken over the ancient quarter of the Christian town of Maaloula and are holding several nuns in a monastery there, state news agency SANA said on Monday. Fighting for the town, about five km (three miles) from the main road linking Damascus to Homs, is...

The top UN official charged with destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile on Monday warned that the most difficult part of its mission in the conflict-ridden country still lay ahead. Meanwhile, a top Syrian official has urged countries "to start acting" to help Damascus comply...

Evidence collected by U.N. investigators probing Syrian war crimes implicates President Bashar al-Assad, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday.   Pillay later denied having direct knowledge of their secret list of suspects, but her revealing...

  The Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant posted online a decision to impose a blockade on areas under control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria. The ISIL’s statement ordered people of ‘Aleppo State’ to prevent entry of food staples, fuel...

    The death toll in Syria's conflict has risen to at least 125,835, more than a third of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The pro-opposition monitoring group also appealed to U.N....

  Syria’s Democratic Union Party, the country’s most powerful Kurdish group, hopes to create an autonomous Kurdish region in a federal Syria, its chief, Salih Muslim, told AFP in an interview.   Speaking during a visit to France, he confirmed that a...

    Fada'at Media Limited will launch a new Arabic newspaper soon with electronic and printed versions, according to Zaman Alwasl source. In a statement issued by the new-born media company and UK-based, said that Al-Jadid newspapers (En: The New) comes as...

The U.S. government has begun outfitting a ship in its reserve ready force with equipment to enable it to destroy some of Syria's chemical weapons at sea in the event Washington is asked to assist in the effort, a defense official said on Sunday, according to Rreuters. The Maritime...

Winter is fast approaching in Iraq’s Kurdistan and as heavy rain threatens to exacerbate an already dire situation for the region’s 235,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees, local organizations are fighting a battle against time in an attempt to soften the cold blow of winter. November gave...

  Syrian lawyers in rebel-held areas have denounced a circular by Shariah Authority in Aleppo ban practicing the civil law in courts and other legal institutions and eliminating the attorney profession. The Islamic Judiciary group that controls legal matters in Aleppo...

Tens of People have protested against Regime Army in the city of Suweida, south Syria after  harassing  a young girl by regular soldier. Many young men in the main market square  couldn't  bear the verbal harassment to their homeland’s girl by the...