Huge rally in Tehran after media accuses rebels of damaging Damascus burial site of Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter. Thousands of protesters have gathered in a central Tehran square on the anniversary of the death of the first Shia Imam to demonstrate against damage to a gravesite in...

  Civil war in  Syria  has cut the wheat harvest to its worst level in nearly three decades and the government's share of the crop is being further eroded as it struggles to procure grain from rebel-held  farming  areas. Estimates collated by Reuters from more...

Hundreds of men who took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad are defecting back to the government side, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. Disillusioned by the Islamist twist that the "revolution" in  Syria  has taken, exhausted after more than two years of conflict...

 Heavy artillery shelling on the city of Homs in Syria had caused a complete destruction of Khalid Ibn Al- Walid shrine, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. Khalid Ibn Al- Walid mosque that hold the shrine is located in an area controlled by the armed...