Germany  faces an increased threat of attack due to around a dozen German militants who have returned from the conflict in  Syria  with specialist knowledge of weapons and bomb-making, German intelligence officers said. Hans-Georg Maassen, head of...

Pictures emerge of thousands of residents of the Damascus district of Yarmouk, who have remained trapped for nearly a year, queuing for food and aid A picture showing thousands of residents queuing for food has revealed shocking levels of deprivation inside a beseiged camp in Syria....

Iran is boosting its support for President Bashar al-Assad, sending top military advisers to Damascus to gather intelligence and train Syrian troops, sources with knowledge of the movements have said. The increase in assistance from Syria's long standing ally reportedly coincided...

Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody, late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured a sophisticated cyberattack on the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure. The...