A member of the Syrian opposition coalition has warned the Syrian community in the Gulf countries against sending money to armed fighters in Syria. He also appealed to Syrians living abroad to increase humanitarian aid for the Syrian refugees within Syria, who are bracing themselves...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has freed Mustafa Abdullah, commander of Sokour al-Islam brigades (Islam's Hawks) in Atimah after six days of detention, special sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The ISIL took control of the town of Atimah on the border with Turkey...

When he was agitating for revolution, urging fellow Syrians to rise up against President Bashar al-Assad, Abdullah dreaded the midnight knock at the door from the secret police. Now that the uprising has succeeded in his home town near Aleppo, pro-democracy activists are living in fear...

The United Nations says its aid convoys cannot reach around 250,000 people in areas besieged by Syrian government forces or rebels, despite "growing needs and intensifying conflict". The detailed assessment was included in a confidential paper that Valerie Amos, U.N. emergency relief...