CAIRO (AP) — The official spokesman of an al-Qaida-breakaway group has strongly criticized its parent organization's head, Ayman al-Zawahri, for siding with a rival jihadi group in Syria. In an audio message posted on militant websites late Sunday, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani,...

War and drought have crippled Syria's wheat crop, with some experts now forecasting output of the staple food could fall to around a third of pre-war levels, and possibly even below 1 million metric tons ( 1 metric ton = 1.1023 tons) for the first time in 40 years, Reuters said in an...

To protect the innocent and to defeat the Assad dictatorship, Syrians should work with Israel to create a safe haven. I spent more than a decade in Syrian prisons and therefore know what kind of regime this is. It is one which believes that torture is a form of dialogue. This was...

  The US is sending missiles to Syrian rebels as part of a “pilot program” to strengthen the opposition, American media reveals. Washington’s new initiative aims to find out whether it can supply opposition forces in Syria with weapons without them falling...