The lawless conflict in Syria is rekindling dangers -- from disease to forms of political violence -- that have been dormant for decades, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Union's Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid, and Crisis Response, told  FP  on Monday....

  Al Qaeda-linked fighters in the rebel-held eastern Syrian city of Raqqa on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said to Reuters. Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kidnapped ...

 Syrian rebels, Lebanese news website report Israeli Air Force activity in Baalbek area, over Quneitra, claim Hezbollah-bound weapons convoy bombed   Another Israeli strike in Syria, Arab media outlets reported Israeli Air Force activity in the Beqaa Valley in east...

       Because the instability on the Turkish-Syrian border poses a security threat for Turkey, Ankara has the legal right to militarily intervene in war-torn Syria based on a mandate that allows the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) to carry out...