Assad's army has sealed the few remaining smuggling routes into the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus, activists and aid workers said on Wednesday, tightening a chokehold on rebel-held areas near the capital. Activists inside the Eastern Ghouta region, a semicircle of rural towns...

Syria has long claimed that its chemical weapons were a deterrent against Israel, but analysts say the real target was Syrians, so their dismantling by the United Nations will not change the regional balance of power. “Syria’s chemical weapons were never a credible deterrence,”...

Syrian refugees and tourists in Turkish cities will not feel that homesick so much when many of Syrian restaurants' owners have moved their food industry to the new homeland that shares them the same religion, habits with many similarities according to the History and Geography. Abo...

  Islam Army, key rebels group, said in statement Tuesday 2 female officers have been killed and 15 others have been wounded by rebels' artillery shelling on the War College, near Damascus, during the graduation ceremony of new female officers. The Syrian conflict erupted in...