A cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said Friday. Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan...

(By Soufyan Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abo Ahmed and his children patiently wait for the time to become 8:00pm, because it is the time for the electricity to get connected to their house in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. Abo Ahmed then rushes to everything needs charging and...

The first visit of a top Syrian official to a Gulf Arab state in more than four years is the strongest sign yet of a new diplomatic push to end the Syrian war, but there are still huge hurdles to face before any peace process can begin. Diplomacy has so far been a total failure...

Islamic State militants have captured dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Friday. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 230 people were kidnapped or detained,...