Syrian Human rights Observatory said more than 60 opposition fighters were killed in violence that has raged in the northeastern province of Hassakeh this week. Pro-government Kurdish fighters captured a major checkpoint Saturday morning in the province after intense clashes with...

The U.S. and European Union are seeing an increasing number of radicalized young Muslims going to  Syria  to fight, a development that raises the danger that they will return to conduct terrorist attacks at home. The war is providing both a rallying point and a training ground for...

A rocket strike near a Shia Muslim shrine in Damascus killed a custodian of Zainab (AS) on Friday, activists and residents said, in an attack that could inflame sectarian tensions in Syria’s 28 month old conflict. Opposition activists and residents said shrapnel killed Anas Romani, the...

  Walid Junblatt, the Druze leader told the newspaper “Al-Anba’a” that he had information about the plans of   the regime of Bashar al-Assad to re-structure the area of the Jabal al-Arab by settling tens of thousands of strangers in the region and naturalizing them....