The Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah is poised to launch a much-anticipated offensive to the north of Damascus in a counterinsurgency campaign that is likely to prompt hand-wringing in Washington and more Saudi frustration with Western inaction in...

  Al-Qaeda affiliate seeks to solve its disputes in Atareb peacefully after threats to attack the northern town near Aleppo, local sources told Zaman Aalwasl.  The State of Iraq and al-Sham recently demanded the rebels based in the town to surrender and to...

  Three Syrians went on trial in Jordan on Tuesday for allegedly trying to smuggle 36 remote control detonators into their country to help anti-government rebels, a court official said. "The three suspects pleaded not guilty at the start of their state security...

  A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war   Fifteen days into his job as  Lebanon ’s top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something...