Assad forces captured a historic mosque in the central city of Homs on Saturday, expelling rebel forces who had been in control of the 13th century landmark for more than a year and dealing a symbolic blow to opposition forces, AP reported. Zaman Alwasl reporter in Homs said that rebels'...

Every Saturday, a group of women in Salamia, a city in western Syria, meet to discuss the events of the past week in relation to the two-year uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad. The women, who oppose the Syrian government, draft a political statement expressing their views. They...

  Veteran leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, Zuhair Salem, had resigned of the Movement leadership and as a spokesman of the MB, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. '' I will be a soldier in the Movement, nothing more, besides my work in the Arab Center for Middle East...

As the Syrian civil war deepened and anti-government rebels struggled to unify their fractious forces, the White House early last year quietly convened an elite group of senior policymakers to advise President  Barack Obama . Their unusual mandate: think outside the box on how to...