The Syrian opposition will form a provisional government in the second half of August after months of failed efforts, Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmad Jarba said on Tuesday to AFP from Doha.   Jarba held fruitful talks with the new emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin...

  Syria's main Kurdish militia on Tuesday issued a call to arms to all Kurds to fight jihadists in the country after the assassination of a Kurdish leader, activists said to AFP.   "The Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG) called on all those fit to...

  The new head of the main Syrian exile opposition group says he is prepared to attend a peace conference in Geneva with representatives of President  Bashar al-Assad  of  Syria  without preconditions. But the group’s new president, Ahmad al-Jarba, said in an...

  Nazi hunters, including Israel, have been looking for Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner for years. The CIA may have employed him. At the age of 100, he still may alive and hiding in Syria. Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, former senior aide to Adolf Eichmann, may still be alive and...