Syrian government forces appeared to prepare for a major assault on the heavily contested town of al-Mleiha, 10 kilometers East of Damascus, on Thursday morning, with pro-Assad news site Damascus Al-Aan reporting that the Syrian army had shelled more than 200 targets in the...

Dr. Abdul Baset Seda, a member in the political committee of the Syrian coalition criticized the opposition for not being able to draw a political line for the revolution. The former president of the National Council, in an interview with Zaman Alwasl, said that when the national...

The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has exceeded one million, in what the UN refugee agency calls a "devastating milestone" for a small country with depleted resources and brewing sectarian tension. Refugees from Syria, half of them children, now equal a quarter of...

The response was immediate and unequivocal: Weeks after the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and mere days after popular protests spread across Egypt, Syria’s president insisted his country would not be next. Assad claimed his regime was ‘very closely linked...