At least 16 members of Syria's security forces were killed by a suicide vehicle bomber and ensuing clashes with rebels at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus on Friday, an opposition monitoring group said. Syrian state television reported the blast but did not specify a death...

    Saudi Arabia said on Friday it refuses to accept its rotating U.N. Security Council seat, saying the council is incapable of ending wars and resolving conflicts . “ The kingdom sees that the method and work mechanism and the double standards in the...

 More than 9.5 million Syrian citizens between refugees and IDPs,  Syrian Network for Human Rights  says Number of IDPs within Syrian territories blatantly exceeded the limits that can be controlled by relief organizations and local committees, where they...

  A Canadian lawyer working for a UN peacekeeping mission in Syria has escaped from rebel fighters who held him for eight months, the Syrian government said.   State television showed Carl Campeau being handed on Thursday over to the senior UN official in...