Assad's forces withdraw from parts of al-Khalidiya neighborhood under fierce shelling of rebels Syrian Activists denied claims of the Assad troops of achieving progress in the al-Khalidiya neighborhood in the western city of Homs. ''The regime army backed by...

Syria is the world’s most dangerous country in the year 2013, The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported.   Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on protests, and since then the riots escalated into a war between the regime forces and rebels.   More than...

  Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Scores of young Kurdish fighters from Iraqi Kurdistan, Sulaimaniyah province, went to Syria to fight the Assad regime recently as the fighting between the Assad forces and rebels intensified. However they found themselves fighting a different force, one of...

Community activists say refugees face harassment over their presumed support for ousted president's Muslim Brotherhood Syrian refugees in  Egypt  are bearing the brunt of a sudden wave of xenophobia, in one of the more unexpected side effects  of the removal  of...