A number of Syrian opposition factions will gather in Cairo next month to form a new coalition as an alternative to an exiled West-backed alliance, officials said Saturday. More than 200 figures from the armed and civilian opposition factions are to attend the June 8-9 gathering and discuss a...

(NOW)- Attention has already been drawn in previous leaks to international journalists who were in contact with Bashar al-Assad’s media aides. Many of these reporters were simply requesting interviews with the president, after obtaining the relevant email addresses through third-party...

Saudi Arabia's top Sunni cleric on Saturday branded a deadly attack on Shiite Muslims a bid to sow chaos, after villagers targeted in the bombing vented their anger at what they saw as the Sunni-dominated government's indifference to their safety. Thousands of protesters took to the streets...

At least 15 people, including 8 children, were killed on Saturday in barrel bomb attacks on al-Hamidiyya neighborhood in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, activists said. 8 children, mostly brothers, and a women were among the casualties of the Syrian regime airstrikes on the rebel-held...