The main nations making up the Friends of  Syria  will meet on Saturday in Doha to discuss assistance for the  Free Syrian Army  following recent successes by government forces, a French foreign ministry  official said. The meeting will be attended by foreign...

A controversial Salafist sheikh threatened on Wednesday to find a “military” solution to alleged Hezbollah safe houses in a southern Lebanese town, a day after clashes involving his supporters left one person dead. Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir is known for his vocal opposition to the powerful...

  Tadef town, Syrian north, established its own Police department to maintain security, control the traffic, and consider complaints and doing the patrols.  The Police Department of the liberated town affiliated with Aleppo is the executive authority of the Sharia...

Abdulhamid sells ice cream to passersby at Domiz, Iraq's biggest camp for refugees fleeing violence in Syria, while Sidra reads an Arabic copy of "The Fox and The Crow" in class.   Little but luck appears to have separated the youths' fates -- they both arrived with their families...