The head of the key Syrian opposition National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, has denounced extremists he said were trying to "steal our revolution", and blamed the regime for supporting them, AFP reported. He made the comments in an address in New York to representatives from the Friends of Syria...

Jihadist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda set fire to statues and crosses inside churches in northern Syria on Thursday and destroyed a cross on a church clock tower, AFP reported. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters entered the Greek Catholic Church of Our Lady...

 The Iraqi government is taking measures to provide accommodation, food and security for a surging number of displaced Syrians in that country.   Iraq has received 210,000 Syrian refugees so far, a sudden increase from 160,000 just over a...

Residents from a small rebel held town in Syria have enacted a satirical pantomime that mocks the West's response to last month's chemical weapons attack in Damascus. As  President Barack Obama  pursues a diplomatic track, demanding that the Syrian regime give up its chemical...