The bodies of 16 men who died under torture at the hands of Syria’s feared security forces have been handed to their families, a monitoring group said early Friday. “We have received information of the death under torture at the hands of regime forces of 16 men from Harasta,” said the...

Syrian rebels advancing from the Jordanian border seized a strategic army position in the southern city of Daraa on Friday as deadly fighting raged in the surrounding province, a watchdog said. “They seized two buildings in the provincial capital that regime forces were using to keep the...

Russia  is committed to arranging a peace conference on the  Syria  conflict but other countries and groups are complicating matters by trying to set preconditions, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. Lavrov, who will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry...

 Damascus suffered recently from lack of natural milk according the ongoing war in its countryside especially in al-Gouth the basic source for food, meat and milk. Eqtsad( Business newspaper) source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed the risks of losing the main resource for...