Caretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour said in remarks published on Wednesday that a number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon will move to Germany.   “In cooperation with the Higher Refugee Council, we have started to receive requests from Syrian families who wish to move to...

Bashar al-Assad's militias are "cleansing" towns and villages of their Sunni Muslim inhabitants across the Syrian province of Homs, refugee families and residents have told The Daily Telegraph. The "Shabiha", a loyalist militia drawn largely from the  Syrian  president's...

Hundreds of men who took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad are defecting back to the government side, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. Disillusioned by the Islamist twist that the "revolution" in  Syria  has taken, exhausted after more than two years of conflict...

Arab Islamists and Kurdish militants, two of the most controversial armed groups in Syria’s civil war, for the past week have been battling each other for control of key towns close to the Turkish border after the Kurds announced a plan to declare local autonomy. The United States views...