Al Arabiya TV’s reporter in the Syrian city of Aleppo Mohammad Saeed has been killed by unknown gunmen, the television network reported on Tuesday. Saeed was killed by a hooded man using a silenced gun in the Aleppo village of Hreitan, Syrian opposition activist said....

   UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who arrived in Damascus Monday, believes President Bashar al-Assad could contribute to the transition to a "new" Syria, but not as the country's leader. Brahimi, who was in Syria on the latest leg of a...

Syria's deputy prime minister, Qadri Jamil, was dismissed from his post, state media said on Tuesday, citing government complaints about his performance and lack of coordination with other officials, Reuters reported.    Jamil had been in Geneva recently and met U.S....

A group of Syrian activists known for its hacking was briefly able to redirect a link on the  @barackobama  Twitter feed to one of its own videos, according to the people who maintain the Twitter feed. The tweet from the account, which is run by Organizing for Action, initially...