Steady advances by insurgents on key fronts in Syria mean President Bashar al-Assad is under more military pressure than at any point in the four-year-old war. Losses in the north, east and south to groups including al Qaeda's Syrian arm and Islamic State may test Assad's hold...

By George Hadad, Translation by Yusra Ahmed In the middle of Syrian crisis, the Ministry of Interior in Syria including the minister himself, were busy for 10 days in sorting out a gift given from “Fiorella Pasta Corporation” consisted of 15 tones of groats, Sugar and Pasta, and 600 cans of...

 Sepp Blatter on Tuesday resigned as president of FIFA as a mounting corruption scandal engulfed world football's governing body. The 79-year-old Swiss official, FIFA president for 17 years and only reelected on Friday, said a special congress would be called as soon as possible to...

 The Nusra Front claimed Tuesday that it had killed several Hezbollah militants and confiscated their weapons in an attack on two of the party’s outposts near Arsal’s outskirts. The jihadi group announced on its Twitter account that its militants attacked two Hezbollah positions...