Fighters loyal to al Qaida have opened up a new offensive against a U.S.-backed rebel group that once escorted U.S. Sen. John McCain into northern Syria, according to Internet postings and news accounts. The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham, an al Qaida affiliate whose fighters come from a...

The  United Nations  is shifting its aid effort for  Syria  to prepare for long-term help to neighbouring countries to cope with the humanitarian crisis, the head of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's...

 International disarmament experts arrived Tuesday in the Syrian capital to begin the daunting task of cataloguing the country's arsenal of chemical weapons ahead of its destruction. Nineteen inspectors from The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons travelled...

    Syrian opposition started printing a revised Syrian curriculum in Istanbul, where all information related to the Assad regime has been omitted. The revised books will be distributed to displaced Syrian students in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Qatar as well as...