Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel to Tehran ally Damascus in the next few days, media reported Sunday, amid preparations for a Syria peace conference. Zarif was Sunday in Lebanon, which neighbours war-torn Syria, and said that his country is not...

27 people have been killed by shelling of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the embattled neighborhood of Waer in Homs city, with possibility to increase the death toll, activists reported. Two days ago, Assad forces killed dozens of rebel fighters who tried to break an army siege...

Over the past two years, Hussein witnessed the horrors of war in his hometown of Damascus. But the most frightening moment of his life did not come in Syria. Rather, it was during a stormy night in the Mediterranean Sea, when the small fishing boat carrying him and 15 other Syrians...