Syria's President Bashar al-Assad described the main opposition National Coalition as a "failure", adding that it can have no role in ending the country's war. "This opposition is not reliable, it is a failure at the popular and moral levels, and it has no role in solving the...

Iran's new president expressed his country's support to Syria's embattled leader Bashar Assad's regime Sunday, saying no force in the world will be able to shake their decades-old alliance. Hasan Rouhani's comments came as Syrian troops and rebels fought some of the fiercest battles in the...

Syrian traders who price goods in foreign currency will face up to 10 years in jail, the regime news Agency (SANA) published on Sunday in a move aimed at stemming the increasing dollarization of an  economy  crippled by two years of cracking down the Syrian revolution. A decree...

Syria's main opposition group called Saturday for the immediate release of an Italian Jesuit priest who went to negotiate with jihadists and who is feared to have been taken prisoner. The National Coalition said it "expresses its deep concern over the disappearance of Father Paolo...