In front of me now, as I am writing this piece, are the names of fifteen person who died due to starvation exacerbated by dehydration. Regime forces have, on top of the food blockade, also cut off all water supplies to Yarmouk. The starved were all inhabitants of...

Syria is committed to its main regional ally Iran attending a planned peace conference next month to which it has yet to be invited, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Sunday. "Syria is committed to Iran joining the peace conference and it is illogical to exclude it," the official...

  Since year ago, al-Qaeda main branch in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, had kidnapped 18 Syrian civilians from Durze community in al-Thaala village near Umm Walad in Daraa, despite the fact that the inhabitants of this village played an important role in providing aid and relief to...

Mourners chanting anti-Hezbollah slogans laid to rest former Lebanese minister Mohamad Chatah on Sunday after he was killed by a car bomb his allies blame on the powerful Shi'ite group. Friday's attack on Chatah, a Sunni who was a vocal critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...