Syria has become a major amphetamines exporter and consumer as the trauma of the country's brutal civil war fuels demand and the breakdown in order creates opportunity for producers. Drugs experts, traders and local activists say Syrian production of the most popular of the...

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel to Tehran ally Damascus in the next few days, media reported Sunday, amid preparations for a Syria peace conference. Zarif was Sunday in Lebanon, which neighbours war-torn Syria, and said that his country is not...

The al Qaeda-linked Islamist state of   Iraq   and the Levant executed dozens of rival Islamists over the last two days as the group recaptured most territory it had lost in the northeastern Syrian province of Raqqa, activists said on Sunday, according to...

Syria’s key opposition leader will meet Russian Foreign Minister in Paris,  on January 13 , in the  runup to the Geneva 2 conference on Syria,  source told Zaman Alwasl. The Syrian National Coalition's top representatives - President Ahmad al-Jarba and...