Syria's most senior army defector, General Mustafa al-Sheikh has arrived to Sweden in company with his older son where ‘’they applied for a political Asylum,’’ well-informed source told   Zaman Alwasl. Al-Sheikh had entered Sweden illegally through a smuggling...

Al Qaeda in Aleppo issued fatwa to cut off the heads of opposition coalition members as well heads of Assad's loyalists. Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Masri, the military commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant in al-Bab city near Aleppo said, ‘‘Whoever supports basher...

US, Russian and UN envoys will meet in Geneva on Monday aiming to pin down a date for an international conference on the Syria conflict, a UN spokesperson said Friday.   Diplomats say UN leader Ban Ki-moon should announce a date after the Geneva talks for a peace conference...

In Lebanon's Bekaa valley, the sun is still shining. But soon temperatures will dip and snow will blanket fields that house hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Their shelters are little more than wooden frames covered with tarpaulins or, in some cases, plastic sacks sewn...