The capture by Syrian pro-government forces of the strategic Qusayr region is a major victory for President Bashar al-Assad, who is now better placed than ever if a US-Russian plan for peace talks materialises. The nearly three-week battle for Qusayr in central Syria exposed the central role...

    Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, President of the World Union of Muslim Scholars, has called for   al-Jihad in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, calling for supplying Syrian men by arms and support. Al-Qaradawi revealed that al-Assad had asked Khaled Meshaal,...

At least eight Hezbollah fighters were killed on Tuesday in fighting against Syrian rebels near Damascus, Free Syrian Army chief of joint staff Salim Idriss told Al Arabiya. In southern Lebanon, thousands of Hezbollah supporters held funerals for two fighters who were killed while fighting...

  About six months ago Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan disappeared in Damascus and was reportedly being held incommunicado by Assad's regime. He had been drawing for the Al-Fida (or Fedaa) newspaper in the city of Hama when he was grabbed. Now. he is about to be put on trial....