Al-Qaeda-linked group in a statement issued today claimed killing Assad's intelligence head in Deir al-Zour days ago. Jameh Jameh had been killed by the mortar rounds ofJabhat al-Nusra during its liberation battle of al-Rushdia neighborhood, 250 soldiers of Assad's army have...

Facebook FB   -0.87%  is suffering a system outage Monday morning that is preventing people from posting status updates. It’s unclear how widespread the issue is, how long it has gone on, and whether it is affecting just the website or apps, too, but rest assured it isn’t...

Polio has returned to Syria after a long absence, and other dangerous diseases are on the increase The World Health Organisation has recorded the first suspected outbreak of polio for 14 years in   Syria , sparking renewed alarm at the collapse of health care caused by the country's...

  U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Baghdad Monday on the next leg of a regional tour to build support for talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the foreign ministry said. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Brahimi at the airport, a statement on the...