A sharia committee in a rebel-held area of Aleppo issued a fatwa deeming croissants ‘haram’ (forbidden in Islamic law) because of their “colonial” significance, pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Tuesday. Croissants’ crescent shape celebrates European victory over Muslims,...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has again confirmed the need to work on a full and comprehensive cease-fire in Syria and to allow humanitarian assistance to reach all those in need in all locations and across borders, according to Saudi Press Agency. This came in a speech delivered by the...

  The new head of the main Syrian exile opposition group says he is prepared to attend a peace conference in Geneva with representatives of President  Bashar al-Assad  of  Syria  without preconditions. But the group’s new president, Ahmad al-Jarba, said in an...

  Nazi hunters, including Israel, have been looking for Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner for years. The CIA may have employed him. At the age of 100, he still may alive and hiding in Syria. Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, former senior aide to Adolf Eichmann, may still be alive and...