(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of al-Waer neighborhood in the central Homs city celebrated Friday their first wholesale vegetable market after three years of shelling and siege as regime allowed a daily 12 tons of vegetables to entering the district in binding to a U.N.-mediated deal. Al-Waer's...

(Al Arabiya English)- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Friday the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was crucial to defeat ISIS. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Jubeir said Assad was responsible for the creation of ISIS by turning Syria into a “fertile...

(Brookings- Shadi Hamid)- U.S. policy toward Syria is a fascinating, if depressing, case study. Many of my friends and colleagues who work on Syria—nearly all of them, in fact—have been baffled by President Obama’s approach to the Syrian conflict. The administration’s apparent...

Syrian rebels have been sent "excellent quantities" of ground-to-ground Grad missiles by foreign backers in recent days, to help them confront a Russian-backed offensive by the government north of Aleppo, two rebel commanders told Reuters on Friday. "It is excellent additional fire power for...