BEIRUT: This week’s resounding re-election of Syrian President Bashar Assad cements a new phase in the war raging in his country, one that sees Washington struggling to formulate an approach based on fighting terror as other options stall, experts say. Ironically, the...

Austrian authorities have arrested a man suspected of radicalising Muslims and recruiting them to fight in Syria, a provincial state prosecutor said on Thursday. A spokesman for the prosecutors’ office in Graz, Austria’s second city, said the suspect was detained two days ago...

  (Al Arabiya News)- French President François Hollande on Thursday said more than 30 French nationals who went to fight in Syria have been killed, AFP reported. During an address to the G7 summit in Brussels, Hollande called for increased cooperation and...

    (Writing by Sham Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) UNESCO held a meeting titled “Rallying the International Community to Safeguard Syria’s Cultural Heritage”, in the organization headquarter in Paris between 26-28 May, 2014....