One of the Islamic Front powerful leaders described the Syrian opposition president in his negotiations with Assad’s regime in Geneva as a new Arthur Belfour, who promised the Jewish people of a national home in Palestine (The Balfour Declaration 1917), according to his official...

A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 63 people, including women and children, in the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus because of food and medical shortages, AFP reported. Yarmuk in southern Damascus has been under a choking army...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Friday denied his country had sent Hezbollah militants to fight in Syria, saying the Tehran-backed Shiite extremist group was making its own decisions. And he told a gathering at the World Economic Forum that he believed the Syrian conflict...

UN and Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said a Syrian government delegation and the Western-backed opposition will meet together on Saturday "in the same room" and that they have accepted the principles of a 2012 communique that called for a transitional government....