Four million Syrians, or a fifth of the population, are unable to produce or buy enough food for their needs and the situation could deteriorate further next year if the two-year old conflict continues, the  United Nations  said on Friday. Reuters reported. Following a...

 Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Thursday that his government had fended off everything his enemies had thrown at him and that the only remaining threat to his rule was a far-off – and improbable – foreign intervention. In comments to the state-run...

      Syrian National Coalition will adopt the principle of interoperability, rather than elections in coalition, according the prominent Coalition member, Abdul Baset Saida said in an interview with "Zaman Alwasl . The coalition met on Thursday under...

  Canada will accept as many as 1,300 Syrian refugees by the end of 2014, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday in Edmonton.   But the government is relying on private sponsors for the vast majority of those cases.   The federal...