U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Baghdad Monday on the next leg of a regional tour to build support for talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the foreign ministry said. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Brahimi at the airport, a statement on the...

  Syrian refugees once sought sanctuary in Turkey from the forces of President Bashar Assad, but now a reign of terror imposed by hard line Islamic fighters linked to al Qaeda is what’s forcing many to flee across the border, Syrians have told NBC News. “We...

Syrian Network for Human Rights have documented killing of 267 people during Muslim's major holiday, Eid al-Adha, with a daily death average of 67 victim per-dayday. SNHR reported killing of  175 civilians including 41 children, 23 women  and 4 prisoners...

He's practically a one man band, but Rami Abdurrahman's influence extends far beyond his modest home in this small English city. The bald, bespectacled 42-year-old operates the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights from his house in the cathedral city of Coventry — and a review of recent media...

  One of the nine Lebanese hostages held in Syria by rebels said in Press conference that the War is against shia, nothing else. Following their arrival in Lebanon, the freed hostages were brought to their homes in Dahiyeh, in Beirut's southern suburbs, where they were...

Tonnes of medicine became under rebels control after capturing Tamico factory in Damascus suburbs yesterday, according to footage has circulated on the internet. The most important medicine was the anti-dote, Atropine, the simplest treatment for nerve gas attacks....

  A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 tons of explosives killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens in the Syrian city of Hama on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group reported. The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road on the...

  A Bulgarian belly dancer, who expressed her sincere empathy with the Syrian refugees, is allocating some of her income to help them, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. Karina Zakhryiva, 34, mother of 4-year-old girl, based in Bulgaria, has donated $ 750 to...

  A key opposition group, National council, will send its participants list in Geneva peace conference to the coalition after proclaiming that it would not attend proposed peace talks in Geneva and would quit the Coalition if it participated, according to Zaman Alwasl....

Nine Lebanese hostages held in Syria by rebels arrive in Lebanon as two kidnapped Turkish pilots return to Istanbul. Nine Lebanese pilgrims held hostage in Syria for 17 months arrived in Beirut after being freed in exchange for two Turkish Airlines pilots seized in Lebanon in August....

Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas chief in Gaza, says the group has not interfered in the violence in either Egypt or Syria. The Gaza Strip's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh has denied reports that his group was involved in fighting in the neighbouring Egyptian Sinai or in Syria. "We...

  The U.N.’s humanitarian chief called Saturday for a cessation of hostilities in a Damascus suburb besieged for months by the Syrian army, so that food and vital medical aid can be delivered, Agence France-Presse reported. Some 3,000 people were evacuated from the area of...

Abu Abd al-Rahim al-Kuwaiti, al-Qaeda-linked group leader in Azaz, the border town with Turkey, said via social media The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham with Liwa'a al-Tawhid have signed a reconciliation agreement. The latest settlement between the two parties comes as a...

Snipers are deliberately shooting at pregnant women in Syria as they try to win packets of cigarettes for hitting their targets, a British doctor has said, according to the British Independent. David Nott, who recently spent five weeks as a volunteer surgeon in a hospital in Syria,...

  Islam Army in a statement circulated today on the Internet said many Russian soldiers have been killed by rebels ambush hit Assad army convoy in Palmyra province. The statement also said 3 Russian soldiers one of them in critical condition were  transferred...

  This report would not provide definite information and figures about Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” and its sources of funding, because it is not that easy especially with the great deal of ambiguity around ISIS’s fund and financial support, besides most powerful forces...

Russia issued a statement on Saturday calling the U.S. proposal for Syria’s chemical weapons to be shipped out of the country “premature.” The remarks issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry were a response to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s statement to National Public Radio on...

At least 16 members of Syria's security forces were killed by a suicide vehicle bomber and ensuing clashes with rebels at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus on Friday, an opposition monitoring group said. Syrian state television reported the blast but did not specify a death...

    Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiya on Friday announced that “the Qatari mediation has led to the release of the nine Lebanese” hostages who were abducted in Syria's Aazaz and Lebanese officials have confirmed his remarks.   Qatari-owned...

In the northern city of Raqqa, the condemned – some civilians, some soldiers, shabiha or alleged Assad collaborators – are brought blindfolded and handcuffed to the city square to be shot in the head in public.  Once celebrated as one of Syria’s first fully liberated cities, Raqqa, now...