Syria's Sana state news agency said the "heroic armed forces have returned security and stability to all of the town". Sana said a large number of "terrorists", as the state refers to the rebels, had been killed and many had surrendered. It said the army was now destroying...

The  International Commission of Inquiry report  on Syria’s grave human rights situation is yet further evidence to prompt the UN Security Council to refer the situation to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International said. The report, released at the...

    Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, President of the World Union of Muslim Scholars, has called for   al-Jihad in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, calling for supplying Syrian men by arms and support. Al-Qaradawi revealed that al-Assad had asked Khaled Meshaal,...

Thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah militants were massed around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, according to rebels and a senior commander in the Lebanese Shiite movement, broadening Hezbollah’s backing of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and stoking fears of an imminent...