Saudi Arabia has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, official Saudi television reported citing a statement by the Interior Ministry. The kingdom has also designated Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, whose fighters are battling Syrian...

Chechen-led faction Jaish al-Muhajireen wal Ansar (JMA) has released a video showing its fighters giving aid to civilians in Kafr Hamra, north of Aleppo city. JMA helped a Syrian brigade, Nuraddin az-Zinki, capture Kafr Hamra last month. The Chechen-led faction is not aligned to any...

  Assad’s planes Thursday renewed raids on the embattled city of Yabrud, the last rebel stronghold in the Qalamoun region near the border with Lebanon. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for human Rights reported eight air raids on the area, which regime troops are...

Negotiators have lost contact with a group of nuns kidnapped from a Syrian town last year after their captors moved them, a source told AFP on Thursday. The 13 nuns and three maids were kidnapped from the famed Christian hamlet of Maalula last year and transported to the nearby town of...