Austria says it will pull its 370 troops from the U.N. force in the Golan Heights because the conflict in Syria has spread to a strategic border crossing according to UPI. Security conditions have deteriorated in the area around the U.N. Golan Heights headquarters since the Quneitra crossing...

Zaman Alwasl are going to block its websites for 6 Hours next Sunday to express our concern about the ongoing threats of arresting and killing to our reporters and other colleagues on anti-state charges, simply for writing articles critical of the Syrian regime and the opposition, in step...

Russia has deployed a naval unit to the Mediterranean Sea, it said on Thursday, a move President Vladimir Putin said was to defend Russian security but which comes as Moscow faces off with the West over Syria. In what is Russia's first permanent naval deployment in the Mediterranean since...

  The leader of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, George Sabra, met early today, in Copenhagen, The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Villy Søvndal, to discuss the possibilities for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Syria .   The Danish Minister...