China is the most welcoming country when it comes to refugees, according to a new survey of citizens' attitudes published on Thursday, with Germany ranking second and Britain third. In its first ever report to record global acceptance of refugees, Amnesty International surveyed more than...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five people from the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city were wounded on Wednesday when regime snipers opened fire on a crowd queuing for bread, activists said. The severe siege pushed tens of al-Waer residents to cross regime's checkpoints to buy bread and basic needs...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Tuesday that if Syrian President Bashar Assad did not abide with efforts to establish a truce across Syria country, alternatives would need to be looked at. "We believe we should have moved to a 'Plan B' a long time ago," Adel al-Jubeir told reporters after...

Fighting between insurgent groups east of Damascus killed more than 50 people Monday, bringing to more than 500 the number of people killed in rebel infighting since late April, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The fighting pits Jaish al-Islam, which is part of the opposition...