Britain has accepted 1,500 asylum seekers from Syria in the past year, the Deputy Prime Minister has disclosed. The government has been criticised by politicians including Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, for refusing to admit Syrian refugees to Britain. However,...

  The headquarters of al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in the main northern city of Aleppo has been seized by fighters from several Syrian rebel brigades. “Fighters from several Islamist rebel brigades took control of the...

Former Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, who defected in July 2012 from Bashar al-Assad's government, and NC former secretary general, Mustafa Al-Sabbagh have resigned from the National Coalition, Zaman Alwasl reporter said.   NC newly re-elected president Ahmad...

Four rebel factions remain in Yarmouk in violation of an agreement to secure peace for the beleaguered Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, a PLO official said Tuesday, according to Ma'an News Agency. PLO executive committee member Ahmad Majdalani told Ma'an News that four...