More than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, have been killed in Syria's uprising-turned-civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The pro-opposition Observatory said the period since the "Geneva 2" peace talks for  Syria  began last...

  Interim Defence Minister of the opposition government has retracted his resignation due to Turkish and American pressure, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. The source, based in Istanbul, said Dr. Asaad Mustafa has been subjected to an intense pressure since he...

Lebanon announced a new government on Saturday, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which spillover violence from neighboring Syria worsened internal instability. A caretaker government has run the country since former Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned in March as...

  Syria  has added opposition delegates at peace talks in Geneva to a "terrorist list" and seized their assets, including the house of one of them, anti-government negotiators and a diplomat said on Saturday. The opposition delegation only learnt of the decision when a...