The road needed to ship chemical weapons out of Syria has been seized by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The Damascus-Homs highway had been blocked for around 20 days, preventing the delivery of fuel to the capital, as troops battled with rebel fighters to secure control of...

  The al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria have started working with crime syndicates and racketeering thugs for kidnappings, arms-smuggling, and widespread looting. Syria’s insurgent militias are becoming ever more enmeshed with organized crime, blurring the line...

   Amid news of Assad’s advances in al-Nabk, one of the last rebel-held areas in Qalamoun, activists reported a mounting presence of Iraqi Shi’ite militias for the first time in battlefields far away from the Shiite shrines.    Thu al-Faqar...

Assad government has planned to provide a petition to the international community saying; ‘’Yes for New Presidential Period for Bashar al-Assad in 2014,’’ sources revealed. Syrian employees have no escape from signing the petition under threat of termination, activists...