The fighting groups in the neighboring suburbs of Homs province agreed on ceasefire after crossed clashes between the Christian towns, and rebel battalions in Al-Hoson citadel.  A statement issued yesterday assured rebels adherent to the peace initiatives by the...

Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Fayssal Mekdad, said Tuesday that his government aimed to negotiate an end to the country’s civil war by talking with a broad range of Syrians, from religious and community leaders to peaceful opposition groups, dismissing the main Western-backed exile...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German magazine he would not negotiate with rebels until they laid down their arms, and said he was still considering whether to run for office again next year. In an extensive interview with Der Spiegel, Assad said he did not believe it was...

Sixteen-year-old Mohammad al Zeibaa lost his entire family in the sarin gas attack east of Damascus six weeks ago, surviving the world's deadliest chemical weapons strike in a quarter century only because he was out working a hospital night shift. Mohammad's father, who rushed to the...

  Syrian people who had seen the coldest winter in 20 years last year, they will the same season, according to weather forecasts, But amid the hysterical prices for gasoline, diesel and transportation. Syrian regime raised on Friday the price of gasoline and...

  A group of Syrian refugees who are occupying a part of the french port of Calais and demanding entry into Britain,are claiming they were being mistreated in France.   The Frence perfect has told Al Jazeera the UK will consider visa requests from a...

A mother and her twin girls have been stabbed by knifes until death by the Assad-backed militia, Shabiha, in Qabo area, when a family of four were heading Lebanon two days ago, their bodies were found in the military hospital of Homs, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported...

Syria has given international experts additional details about its chemical weapons program that go beyond a September 21 declaration of its poison gas arsenal, the United Nations said on Friday. The team consists of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of...

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told Turkey it will pay a heavy price for backing rebels fighting to oust him, accusing it of harboring “terrorists” along its border who would soon turn against their hosts. In an interview with Turkey’s Halk TV due to be broadcast...

Al-Qaida militants battled fighters linked to the Western-backed opposition along with Kurdish gunmen in Syrian towns along the Turkish border on Friday, in clashes that killed at least 19 people, activists said. The violence is part of an outburst of infighting among the myriad rebel groups...

Cambridge International Arts is providing the opportunity for artists and others to draw or paint for Syria – raising money for  Oxfam’s Syria Campaign .  Secret Art Sale for Syria  invites you to contribute a piece of original art in any medium on an A5 piece of paper....

The CIA is expanding a clandestine effort to train opposition fighters in Syria amid concern that moderate, U.S.-backed militias are rapidly losing ground in the country’s civil war, U.S. officials said. But the CIA program is so minuscule that it is expected to produce only a few hundred...

When radical Islamists tore down a cross and hoisted a black flag above a church in the northern Syrian city of Raqqah last week, it underscored the increasingly hostile environment for the country’s Christians. Although Syria is majority Sunni Muslim, it is one of the most religiously and...

Rebel fighters executed 2 men, by shots on the head, and threw their corpses in the main market of Yabroud city, Damascus countryside along with a paper which mentioned that the men were subject to Shariah punishment, Syrian  watchdog  said.   The...

A group of powerful rebel brigades in northern Syria is struggling to defuse an armed standoff pitting insurgents against an affiliate of Al Qaeda for control of a strategic town near the Turkish border.   The conflict over the town, Azaz, has shuttered a Turkish...

 International inspectors racing to meet a mid-2014 deadline to eliminate Syria's chemical stockpile said Thursday they have made "encouraging initial progress" in their mission, and hope to start onsite inspections and begin disabling equipment within the next week. An advance team of...

   The Syrian government is unlawfully holding tens of thousands of political detainees solely on the basis of their peaceful activity, Human Rights Watch said today in opening a campaign to cast light on their fate. Many have been held for long periods and tortured....

Six Syrian rebel groups called on al-Qaida and its rival Western-backed rebels to end their infighting in northern Syria as international inspectors tasked with overseeing the destruction of the government's chemical arsenal pressed on with their second full day of work in the...

    Syria's opposition Ambassador to Doha expressed his sorrow for the collective resignation by 4 employees including the consul last week. Mr. Nizar al-Heraki described the resignation of Consul Omar Idlebi with other three employees as “ a surprising act", as...

 A medical source from the embattled Ghouta towns revealed death of 6 children at least because of famine and lack of food, "we are not in Somalia,'' the source said to Zaman Alwasl. '' People are dying under severe siege by Bassar al-Assad forces to rebel-held areas....