Hezbollah fighters are going to stay in Syria “as long as they are needed” by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces battling rebels, head of the Shiite movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said during his second appearance in public marking a Shiite religious occasion. “As long as the reasons...

Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported...

Southern districts that have been under rebel control for more than a year are falling one by one, Damascus-based activist Rami al-Sayyed said to Reuters, referring to gains by Assad's forces around the capital. Zaman Alwasl sources assured that mass mobilization is taking...

Kurdish militias seized another seven villages in northeastern  Syria , activists said on Wednesday, a day after the fighters' political wing announced an interim administration that aims to carve out an autonomous Syrian Kurdish region. Kurds, often described as the world's...