Rebels' concerns have dramatically mounted amid fears of imminent siege for their areas in Aleppo after the fall of Safira town by the Assad army, according to Zaman Alwasl sources. The town of Safira lies on a road the army said would be used to send in...

  A senior army officer and chemical-weapons specialist who defected from Bashar al-Assad’s forces said that Regime's army officials have made a deal with Houthis in Yemen to sell tons of toxic chemical substances for $ 1 billion, according to the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan....

  Turkey   and   Iran   said on Friday they had common concerns about the increasingly sectarian nature of Syria's civil war, signaling a thaw in a key Middle Eastern relationship strained by stark differences over the conflict. Iran  ...

  One Syrian security official called it the "Starvation Until Submission Campaign", blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of  Syria . Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from...