An al Qaeda splinter group has demanded that Christians in a Syrian city it controls pay a levy in gold and curb displays of their faith in return for protection, according to a statement posted online on Wednesday. The Islamic State in  Iraq  and the Levant (ISIL),...

Syrian Relief Office in Jordan has been closed over lack of responsibility by National Coalition Aid Unit,  former director said to Zaman Alwasl. Rima Flaihan, a prominent Syrian opposition figure, and a member of the SNC, said that a volunteer team formed in 2012 in Jordan,...

  Germany  faces an increased threat of attack due to around a dozen German militants who have returned from the conflict in  Syria  with specialist knowledge of weapons and bomb-making, German intelligence officers said. Hans-Georg Maassen, head of...

Scores of Islamist fighters were killed in an army ambush in the Eastern Ghouta area of the capital Damascus, Syria's national news agency SANA said on Wednesday. Captain Islam Alloush, Military spokesman of the Islamic Front claimed that most of 45 victims were civilians trying to...