Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement on Saturday has killed a senior regime army officer by an explosive device planted near his car in Damascus, the dominant rebel group said in statement. The Salafist group gave no further details over the attack that killed Brigadier General Raeef Ali al-Hasan and...

A ceasefire in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border and in two villages to the north has broken down after renewed heavy shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Saturday. The truce between the Syrian army and the Lebanese group Hezbollah on...

 A film on the life of Prophet Mohammad is expected to break box office records in Shi'ite Muslim Iran after its release on Thursday, but some Sunni Muslim clerics in the Arab world are demanding that Tehran ban it.     The state-sponsored "Mohammad, Messenger of God",...

Distraught over missing relatives en route from Syria to western Europe, two young men waited anxiously on Friday for news outside Vienna’s forensic department, where some of the bodies of 71 dead migrants found in Austria have been brought. "We have not heard from them in...