The Catholic Church has called for a global day of fasting and prayer on Saturday for peace in Syria and against any armed intervention, with Pope Francis scheduled to host a mass vigil on St Peter's Square. The Argentine pope has called for a "cry for peace" from the world's 1.2...

Iranian-backed Shiite militias are threatening to retaliate against American interests inside Iraq if the United States goes ahead with strikes against the Tehran-allied government in neighboring Syria, according to Iraqi security officials and militants themselves. Iraqi officials say they...

An error in a front page article published by  The New York Times  has elicited strong condemnation from supporters of the Syrian opposition on Friday for what they see as a misrepresentation of moderate rebels in the Syrian conflict. On Thursday, the  Times  piece "...

A Russian warship carrying “special cargo” will be dispatched toward Syria, a navy source said on Friday, as the Kremlin beefs up its presence in the region ahead of possible U.S. strikes against the Damascus regime.   The large landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov will on...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the failure to take military action Syria in response to the use of chemical weapons there would embolden “rogue nations.” Obama was speaking to reporters at the conclusion of a Group of 20 summit in Russia where Syria dominated much of the...

Head of Syria’s rebel Free Syrian Army said on Friday there are indicators that the U.S. Congress would vote against a possible military action targeting the Syrian regime. FSA Gen. Salim Idriss appealed in an interview with Al Arabiya for the U.S. Congress to authorize a military strike...

  Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) Broadcast an announcement saying: “The specialized authorities will grant financial reward of 500 thousand Syrian pounds nearly $2000   for handing   a foreigner terrorists or a financial reward of 200 thousand Syrian pounds equal to $...

Representative Tom Cole started hearing it in the morning when he went to grab coffee. “I was just at Starbucks, and a woman there recognized me,” the six-term Republican House member told a Chamber of Commerce gathering here. “She said, ‘Everybody here’s a no on Syria.'   “ Mr. Cole...

President Obama  has directed the Pentagon to develop an expanded list of potential targets in Syria in response to intelligence suggesting that the government of President  Bashar al-Assad  has been moving troops and equipment used to employ chemical weapons while Congress...

A Syrian refugee donated his wife’s organs and saved lives for three Italian patients. He and his wife, a former nurse, arrived at the shores of the island of Sicily on August 28, but she died immediately, but she gave a consent for organ donation before dying, according to...

Jihad   al-Lahham, The Head of the Parliament in Syria,   has written to US Congress, warning members against supporting "irresponsible, reckless action" that it claims will injure innocent civilians. The letter, seen by Sky News, urges Congress to "communicate with...

  Swedish Immigration refused to grant asylum to 10 Syrians seeking asylum on suspicion of participating and committing "war crimes" during the Syrian regime’s war against its people. A report on the Swedish newspaper " Dagens Nyheter” which presented a report for Lennart...

If you are Turkish and want to get married from a Syrian Girl you have to pay $15,000 to the Turkish Authorities. The new law seeks to protect the Syrian women amid fears of use their hard living circumstances especially the refugees, according to activists. In case you...

Many media agencies and delegates, either Arabic or foreign, attended to Amman, getting ready to cover the  U.S.  military strike on Assad’s regime, and to explore Syrian’s attitude regarding the attack. However, no changes noticed in Amman, no signs of getting ready to war,...

  Regime emulates the national Coalition by tempting Kurd with Full Syrian Nationality Straight away It seems that Assad government has attempted to withdraw the carpet from underneath the coalition in regard to Kurds issue, as the government decided yesterday...

As G20 summit starts, the Pope warns US attacks are ‘futile’ British scientists have detected the deadly Sarin nerve agent on the clothing of one of the victims of the gas attack in Syria, David Cameron revealed today. Samples collected from the clothes of one of hundreds of men,...

The Obama administration is considering sending American military trainers to Syria to work with the rebel fighters in an expansion of the CIA's training program already underway in Jordan. A U.S. official tells Fox News the prospect of sending trainers to Syria is being “kicked...

US President Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin were Thursday set to argue out their differences on the Syria crisis over dinner at the G20 in Russia as world leaders sought to overcome a deep chasm over a US-led push for military action. Obama prepared to argue his case for punitive strikes...

Chairman of rebels' Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Coalition to visit Washington next week to probe the Congressmen for positive vote regarding the anticipated US strike, Louai Mukdad, political coordinator of the Free Syrian Army said.  Syria's opposition called on...

The Syrian rebels posed casually, standing over their prisoners with firearms pointed down at the shirtless and terrified men. The prisoners, seven in all, were captured Syrian soldiers. Five were trussed, their backs marked with red welts. They kept their faces pressed to the dirt as...