(Reuters) - Syrian businessmen and trade officials say they are worried the economic lifeline provided by Iran is under strain from plunging oil prices, despite public messages of support from Syria's strongest regional ally. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has relied on...

  Turkey and Qatar share the same concerns in Syria and Iraq, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. Addressing a joint press conference with visiting Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani at the presidential palace in Ankara, Erdogan said...

  BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- Lebanese authorities have arrested a Baath Party cell allegedly involved in handing over Syrian rebel fighters to Bashar Assad's regime after kidnapping them in Lebanon, security sources said Friday. The sources told The Daily Star that the all-Lebanese,...

(Reuters) - One million people have been wounded during Syria 's civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the World Health Organization's Syria representative said. A plunge in vaccination rates from 90 percent before the war to...