The Palestinian Hamas movement has "resumed" relations with Iran after a temporary falling out over the Syrian conflict, a senior member of the Islamist movement said Monday. "Relations between Hamas and Iran have resumed," Mahmud al-Zahar told reporters at a news conference in Gaza,...

Assad government has planned to provide a petition to the international community saying; ‘’Yes for New Presidential Period for Bashar al-Assad in 2014,’’ sources revealed. Syrian employees have no escape from signing the petition under threat of termination, activists...

Desperate civilians in a swathe of Syria from Aleppo in the north to the southern border are largely out of reach of aid workers, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday. Throughout the country, the wounded are often denied medical treatment by either...

      An al-Qaeda-linked group said three militants killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces last week were its members, and that their presence there showed that the Islamist network had taken root in the occupied Palestinian territory.  ...