A British-Syrian TV pundit is threatening to sue social media users who slander her or threaten her life after her recent controversial views regarding  not allowing Syrian refugees to come to Britain  were aired on a BBC program. Halla Diyab, a writer and producer based in...

    The Saudi preacher Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Moheisini has accused the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) of foiling his Initiative which called for an immediate ceasefire with Islamist rebels after one month of fighting. Al-Moheisini, based in...

Syrian opposition activists say military helicopters have dropped barrels packed with explosives in the government's latest air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 23 people including a family trapped in a burning car. In Aleppo, the raids with...

The death toll in Syria's civil war has topped 136,000 after January saw one of the conflict's bloodiest months, an NGO said Saturday, as violence claimed even more lives. But the prospects of a peaceful outcome looked dim after 10 days of talks in Geneva yielded no tangible results...