Israeli youth in the Bnei Akiva program pray for an end to the killing of innocent Syrian civilians. A group of youth involved in the religious-Zionist Bnei Akiva program have started organized prayers on behalf of Syrian civilians who are at risk due to the ongoing civil  war in...

  Kurdish National Council and Syrian opposition National Coalition concluded an initial agreement that included recognition of the identity of the Kurdish people to consider their issue as an essential part of the overall national issue in unified Syria. The agreement also...

Syria's UN envoy said Wednesday that dozens of Syrian soldiers inhaled poison gas in new incidents in his country and called on the United Nations to investigate. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told reporters he had asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to extend the mandate of a UN chemical...

  Kurdish rebels based in north Iraq Monday claimed to have killed seven Iranian soldiers in clashes last week near the Islamic republic's border with Iraqi Kurdistan.   "Iranian forces...attacked and swept the area near Sardasht," the PJAK said in a...