Iran said Friday that next week's presidential election in Syria, branded a farce by Western governments, will boost the legitimacy of its ally Bashar al-Assad. "God willing, the elections in Syria will be carried out without a hitch," said Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior...

DAMASCUS, May 30 (Reuters) - As Syria approaches a surreal presidential election in the midst of civil war, the capital has avoided the worst of the conflict but reminders are increasingly coming out the water taps and appearing on the dinner table, to the dismay of Damascenes....

BEIRUT (AP) — Crude bombs dropped by Syrian government forces on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo have killed nearly 2,000 people so far this year, an activist group said Friday. The grim figure is the latest addition to the deadly tally from Syria's civil war,...

United Nations, (IANS/WAM) Syria has suffered $143.8 billion in economic losses due to the continuing civil war in the country, according to a new UN report. The joint report by the Syrian Centre for Policy Research and the UN says that even as the death toll from Syria's...