U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Damascus on Monday, as part of the next leg of his regional tour to garner support for a peace conference on Syria. Brahimi flew in to Beirut from Tehran and was to travel overland to Damascus the same day, making his first visit to...

Syria has never had a large Shiite population, but in recent years there has been an increase in conversions to Shiism within Syria’s Sunni, Ismaili, and Alawite populations. The geographical proximity of Iran to Syria has always led to a certain degree of Iranian influence there,...

Shabiha, Pro-Assad militia has breached a planned truce in al-Waer neighborhood in Homs which was supposed to open all blocked crossings to allow people breaking the siege after 3 week of suffering, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Also, sources said that 7 people have been...

Kurdish militants sought to consolidate their control of an oil-producing region in northeastern Syria  on Sunday after seizing a border crossing with Iraq  from Islamist rebels, activists said. Fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought in...