Al-Qaeda affiliate, the 'Islamic State' is planning to capture the town of Atareb, a fter controlling the border town of Azaz two weeks ago,  activists reported to Zaman Alwasl. Rebels' reaction so far was calling for mobilization all fighters groups in Atareb to...

  The strange thing about the crackup in U.S.-Saudi relations is that it has been on the way for more than two years, like a slow-motion car wreck, but nobody in Riyadh or Washington has done anything decisive to avert it. The breach became dramatic over the past week....

A  video   message purporting to show a Russian man abducted in  Syria  set a deadline of five days for the release of a detained Saudi national in exchange for the Russian's freedom, Reuters reported. The footage posted on YouTube showed a bearded man...

Assad's court freed 'The youngest known convicted prisoner' Tal al-Mallouhi  Syrian First Criminal Court in Homs issued on Wednesday judicial decision to release immediately the youngest known convicted prisoner Tal al-Mallouhi, 22-year-old, after 45 months of imprisonment,...