The total cost of Syria's almost three-year-long conflict reached 103.1 billion dollars in the first half of 2013, the United Nations said on Thursday. The devastating civil war has almost completely halted industrial activity in Syria, said a senior official from the...
Syria should immediately stop using incendiary weapons, Human Rights Watch said today in a report which documents at least 56 attacks using the weapons since November 2012. Human Rights Watch will present its concerns at the annual meeting of the Convention on...
The Syrian National Coalition agreed on Monday to participate in peace talks in Geneva which are aimed at bringing together the opposition and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to create a transition government and end Syria’s two-year conflict But the Syrian...
With a string of military gains across northeastern Syria , a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn country, posing a dilemma for regional powers. Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Kurds...
