The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has said that  "factors are not yet in place" for peace talks despite efforts by world powers to convene a meeting next month. In an interview with on Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen television, broadcast on Monday, Assad also said he desired a third term as...

Facebook FB   -0.87%  is suffering a system outage Monday morning that is preventing people from posting status updates. It’s unclear how widespread the issue is, how long it has gone on, and whether it is affecting just the website or apps, too, but rest assured it isn’t...

  Syrian refugees once sought sanctuary in Turkey from the forces of President Bashar Assad, but now a reign of terror imposed by hard line Islamic fighters linked to al Qaeda is what’s forcing many to flee across the border, Syrians have told NBC News....

He's practically a one man band, but Rami Abdurrahman's influence extends far beyond his modest home in this small English city. The bald, bespectacled 42-year-old operates the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights from his house in the cathedral city of Coventry — and a review of recent...