As Western countries display increasing alarm at the strength of multinational Islamist extremists among rebels in Syria opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian official was quoted on Wednesday as saying Western intelligence agencies had sent representatives to Damascus...

Over one million Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon, but not all are eligible for aid. Refugees who are not registered with the United Nations have been forced to take desperate measures to survive. Fourteen-year-old Hanifa has agreed to marry a 44-year-old Lebanese landlord. Her...

 State security claimed that 40 Syrian detainees had been died due to heart attacks, a well-informed source from the embattled neighborhood of Mezzeh in Damascus city, told Zaman Alwasl. The Assad regime refused to deliver the detainees bodies to their relatives in...

  A series of bomb attacks on Wednesday targeted areas within the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba killing at least 52 people and injuring dozens more, police and hospital sources said, according to Agence France-Presse. In...