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...

The Lebanese Communication Group, parent of the Lebanese Shiite party Hezbollah’s Al Manar Channel and Al Nour Radio, has officially apologised to Bahrain’s Information Affairs Authority (IAA) for its past coverage of the country, Bahrain News Agency (BNA) has reported. The...