The head of Syria’s opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country’s situation was “desperate” and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have...

  Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Scores of young Kurdish fighters from Iraqi Kurdistan, Sulaimaniyah province, went to Syria to fight the Assad regime recently as the fighting between the Assad forces and rebels intensified. However they found themselves fighting a different force, one of...

Community activists say refugees face harassment over their presumed support for ousted president's Muslim Brotherhood Syrian refugees in  Egypt  are bearing the brunt of a sudden wave of xenophobia, in one of the more unexpected side effects  of the removal  of...

  Civil war in  Syria  has cut the wheat harvest to its worst level in nearly three decades and the government's share of the crop is being further eroded as it struggles to procure grain from rebel-held  farming  areas. Estimates collated by Reuters from more...