A candidate standing against Bashar al-Assad in next month's Syria's presidential election says the country's conflict began because of the regime's poor economic management and a minority elite monopolising wealth. "Today there is a nationwide war and a foreign plot, but in the...

Dutch police have arrested a 21-year-old man who fought in Syria as he was allegedly about to commit an armed robbery "to finance jihad", the public prosecutor said on Wednesday. The man spent six months in Syria last year "taking part in jihad" fighting President Bashar...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia dubbed as a "publicity stunt" a planned U.N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution to refer Syria's civil war to the International Criminal Court, warning that the move would be detrimental to attempts to broker...

Translation by Dani Murad During the Syrian revolution, a number of Syrian officers have defected from the regime to either join the revolution side or to flee to other countries, and recently some of them switched sides to join Assad’s forces again...