(AFP)- Western countries that back the revolt in Syria have started to shift position on the conflict because of the danger posed to them by jihadists, according to President Bashar al-Assad. "The United States and the West have started to send signs of change. Terrorism is now...

BEIRUT (AP) — An offensive by a breakaway al-Qaida group in eastern Syria against Islamic rebel factions has killed more than 630 people and uprooted at least 130,000 since the end of April, an activist group said Tuesday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's campaign in...

The decision by Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group to join the civil war in neighboring Syria and fight along President Bashar Assad's forces was a historic and moral "mistake" toward the Syrian people, a leading Lebanese politician has said. The harsh criticism by Walid...

Writing by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad In a rare document, regime’s ministry of interior has admitted the reality-based situation in Syria, which underlines regime's huge loss of sovereignty and land under the name of "the shrinking of...