Journalists in Syria have been killed by snipers, accused of spying, and kidnapped by gunmen, and with the threats growing, many say the conflict is now too dangerous to cover. The risks have increased the challenge of reporting from the country, which was already difficult because of...

Regime forces and Syrian rebels fighting for control of a small but strategic town in the country's embattled northern province of Aleppo have killed at least 20 people, most of them civilians, activists said Friday. Meanwhile, rebels killed at least 30 Syrian soldiers, including ten who...

    Saudi Arabia said on Friday it refuses to accept its rotating U.N. Security Council seat, saying the council is incapable of ending wars and resolving conflicts . “ The kingdom sees that the method and work mechanism and the double standards in the...

Amnesty International slammed Egypt on Thursday for unlawfully arresting and deporting hundreds of Syrian refugees, including women and children. “Instead of offering vital help and support to refugees from Syria, the Egyptian authorities are arresting and deporting them, flouting human...

 More than 9.5 million Syrian citizens between refugees and IDPs,  Syrian Network for Human Rights  says Number of IDPs within Syrian territories blatantly exceeded the limits that can be controlled by relief organizations and local committees, where they...

Syrian refugees, who fled Syria looking for better and safer place, can travel to Haiti, the Caribbean country, according to George Dagher, adviser of Haiti Foreign Minister for the Arabic and Islamic Affairs.   Eqtsad , Zaman Alwasl Business...

 A leading Syrian comedian fainted after being slapped by a woman asked him to mediate with Bashar al-Assad authorities to get her son out of prison.   Activists have circulated via social media pages a story of a woman from Quneitra province was begging Duraid...

The rise of al Qaeda in parts of Syria's north has left  Turkey  facing a new security threat on its already vulnerable border and raised questions about its wholesale support for rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey  has long championed more robust backing...

  A Canadian lawyer working for a UN peacekeeping mission in Syria has escaped from rebel fighters who held him for eight months, the Syrian government said.   State television showed Carl Campeau being handed on Thursday over to the senior UN official in...

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that he hoped the Syrian government's chemical weapons will be rapidly consolidated into one location, put on a ship and removed from the region.   Kerry said in an interview with National Public Radio that the...

As hundreds of thousands of Syrians flee the war in their country, others are doing everything they can to reach the battle zones. Around 150 Kazakhs said to be from the same family – including very young children, teenagers, women and men – left their country “to fulfil their duty of jihad in...

Head of the Military security in Deir el-Zour has been killed by a sniper bullet. Assad-run television reported Thursday that  top Syrian army general has been killed in fighting with rebels, as the country's deputy prime minister floated Nov. 23-24 as possible dates for...

  The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham denies being hit by Turkish mortar as the Turkish Chief of General Staff has said in response to a mortar shell fired on Tuesday from Syria's Parsaia Mountain near the border town of Azaz, sources told Zaman Alwasl.  ...

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said on Thursday that Geneva II, an international conference aimed at seeking an end to the country’s civil war, is scheduled to be held between Nov. 23-24, reported Reuters. Jamil announced the dates at a news conference in Moscow when asked...

  Muslims throughout the world have been marking Eid al-Adha, but in war-torn Syria there is nothing to celebrate. Most people are struggling to meet the most basic of needs: food, water, and shelter. Their plight has been highlighted by Arabic media reports which cite a...

  While the children of Ein Tarma town in Damascus suburbs were playing and celebrating the major Muslims' holiday Eid al-Adha, Bashar al-Assad warplanes hit the pubic square of the city, killing 3 children at least . Pro-Assad's social media pages said...

 Rebels close to take over the central prison of Aleppo after two suicide bombs and ongoing clashed, activists reported. ''50 soldiers of Assad regime forces have been killed among them a high ranking officer,  with more than 500 detainees have been released  including...

Twenty-one people, including four children and six women, were killed when a minibus hit a mine in the southern  Syria n town of Noa on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Opposition activists told the Observatory the minibus drove over a...

  Sky News Arabia said that a team of its reporters had gone missing in the contested city of Aleppo.   The Abu Dhabi-based channel said it lost contact on Tuesday morning with reporter Ishak Moctar, a Mauritanian national, cameraman Samir Kassab, a Lebanese...

Syrian army troops have recaptured a strategic town in the south of Damascus from opposition forces on Wednesday, state media and a monitoring group reported.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army was backed by Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite militia in the assault on the...