The total cost of Syria's almost three-year-long conflict reached 103.1 billion dollars in the first half of 2013, the United Nations said on Thursday. The devastating civil war has almost completely halted industrial activity in Syria, said a senior official from the...

  Syria  should immediately stop using incendiary weapons, Human Rights Watch said today in a  report  which documents at least 56 attacks using the weapons since November 2012. Human Rights Watch will present its concerns at the annual meeting of the Convention on...

Tension between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the biggest threat to world security, Iran's foreign minister has said. Mohammad Javad Zarif told the BBC in comments published on Monday, "I think we need to come to understand that a sectarian divide in the Islamic world is a...

The Syrian National Coalition agreed on Monday to participate in peace talks in Geneva which are aimed at bringing together the opposition and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to create a transition government and end Syria’s two-year conflict But the Syrian...