The UN's peace envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Tuesday announced the start of wide-ranging consultations in Geneva with regional and domestic players in the hope of reviving stalled dialogue on the conflict. De Mistura said talks with the Syrian government and some 40 groups,...

Fatah Army on Tuesday has pressed more advances on the eastern front of Ariha town in Idlib province, taking control of two Syrian army posts, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The alliance of Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda wing the Nusra Front, has taken control of Buthaina and Biout...

A Lebanese hostage appeared in a video released Tuesday by the Nusra Front said captives will “pay the price” for any upcoming battle in Syria’s Qalamoun. (The Daily Star)

Al-Omari brigades, rebel group active in southern Syria, on Tuesday declared general mobilization to repel Syrian army's major offensive to recapture Lajat region, field sources said. Syrian regime forces, who lost swaths of territories last April, have massed troops near rebel-held town of...

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura is to meet delegates of the Syrian government and some rebel groups, as well as regional powers such as Turkey and Iran. Islamist militant groups such as Islamic State (IS) and al-Nusra Front have not been invited, despite the power they hold on the ground. The...

The Employees of Syrian opposition’s government are still waiting their paychecks for the last four months, source said as the Western-backed group faces funds decline. $ 1.4 million is wages' monthly amount for more than 400 employees in and out Syria. Ahmed To’meh, Prime Minister of...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mazen Abdullah Mobarak, a Syrian child ran away with his family to Jordan, and live as a refugee in the city of Mafraq, suffers of acute Leukaemia, but his family cannot afford for his treatment. Mazen’s condition has been discovered when he...

Two UN peacekeepers have been wounded when mortar rounds fired from Syria hit their base in the Israeli-held sector of the Golan Heights, according to the Israeli army spokesperson. Israel public radio said the two were lightly wounded in Monday's incident. "Mortar shells hit the Golan in Ein...

  Islamist militants launched brazen attacks on Hezbollah and Syrian army positions in the western Qalamoun mountain range along Lebanon's border at dawn Monday, leaving a number of fighters dead and wounded, security sources said. One security source said that the Nusra Front and allied...

A senior Syrian army officer was wounded in a suicide bombing in a central Damascus district on Monday, a monitoring group said, though the military denied the report. "A major general who heads the munitions and supply division of the Syrian army was injured and one of his companions killed...

(Reuters) - Nearly 5,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya and 10 bodies were recovered in less than 48 hours, Italy's coast guard said, in one of the biggest rescue operations this year. Two weeks after nearly 900 boat people drowned in the worst...

Dozens of people have been killed in Syrian air strikes on the cities of Idlib and Aleppo and the suburbs of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least three people were killed while 16 others were injured when Syrian helicopters dropped seven barrel bombs on a...

Syria's army cut the last main supply route for a rebel bastion east of Damascus Sunday, further tightening a crippling siege on the area, a monitor and state media said. "The regime has cut off the last main road for rebels leading out of Eastern Ghouta," the main opposition stronghold in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on a school in rebel-held Aleppo killed At least 10 people, including 5 pupils, in second assault on Aleppo schools in 10 days, activists said. The Educational center of Seif al-Dawla neighborhood in Aleppo was stormed by two barrel bombs Sunday...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hasan Shandi, Kurdish opposition figure, last Friday has appealed to the Kurdish community and human rights organizations for seizing his father’s house and farm in Efrin in Aleppo countryside by the Democratic Union party...

 A photo collects senior Syrian Islamist commanders has sparked a barrage of questions on social media as rebels close to overthrow Bashar al-Assad for the first time in four-year fighting. Jaysh al-Islam commander, Zahran Alloush, accompanied by commander of Ahrar al-Sham Movement,...

The leader of the Islamic State (Isis), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remains incapacitated due to suspected spinal damage and is being treated by two doctors who travel to his hideout from the group’s stronghold of Mosul, the Guardian has learned. More than two months after being injured in a US...

AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) — A year after opening, a camp in Jordan billed as an improved model for sheltering Syrian refugees has a mixed record: Azraq offers safety and a sense of order, with its close to 10,000 prefab shelters arranged in tidy rows, but refugees say life is...

 The Syrian capital's tiny tourist train is returning puffs of hope to a city encircled by war with short trips to the greener suburbs of Damascus. The train, whose large yellow wagon and leather seats can hold 100 people, had stopped running since the 2011 outbreak...

Free Syrian Army mourned Friday a prominent commander reportedly killed by Syrian forces on Aleppo's battlefront northern Syria. Division 16, rebel group active in Aleppo city, said its field commander Khaled al-Hayani was killed during an attack launched by the group on government-held...