Tripoli- Lebanon (The Daily Star)- A fire broke out at a Syrian refugee camp in the northern town of Minyeh Thursday, destroying 13 tents and lightly injuring two people, three days after another fire killed a refugee baby in an east Lebanon camp. Firefighters rushed to the scene and put out...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed Syrian regime supporters circulated on social media a story of Syrian army soldier claimed he spent hours in the mortuary as medics thought he was dead. Tarek Darwish, a soldier was severely injured in al-Qarmid battles in the northern province of Idlib two weeks...

By Fathi Ibrahim Bayoud, Editor in-chief Most Syrians assume that Abu Mohamad al-Golani's interview with Al Jazeera, aired this week, was a disappointing for some supporters, rivals and even sympathizers. Although the two-part interview on the Qatari-financed channel appeared to be an attempt...

Syria's defense minister has visited army units to the east of Homs city, state television reported on Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of morale-boosting trips by senior officials to military outposts. The government has lost large areas of land in the last two months to...

The Syrian air force on Thursday extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas in the northern province of Aleppo, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 14 people, activists said. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said at least 6 people, including women and 2 children,...

The head of al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front said he saw no solution soon to a conflict with the rival Islamic State group in Syria that has killed hundreds of fighters, according to an interview with Al Jazeera aired on Wednesday. Nusra Front, loyal to the successors of Osama...

Syrian troops and militia battled on Wednesday to repel an Islamic State attack on the city of Hasaka in the northeast, and a Kurdish official said the government forces may not be able to hold off the jihadists. Hasaka city is divided into zones run separately by the government...

Thousands of Iranian and Iraqi fighters have been deployed in Syria in past weeks to bolster the defenses of Damascus and its surroundings, a Syrian security source told AFP Wednesday. "Around 7,000 Iranian and Iraqi fighters have arrived in Syria over the past few weeks and their first...

Steady advances by insurgents on key fronts in Syria mean President Bashar al-Assad is under more military pressure than at any point in the four-year-old war. Losses in the north, east and south to groups including al Qaeda's Syrian arm and Islamic State may test Assad's hold...

At least 40 people lost their lives Wednesday in four regime barrel bomb attacks on opposition-controlled areas in Aleppo province, activists said.  Local activists said 22 people were killed, including a number of women and children in Tal Rifaat town north of Aleppo while the second...

The United States has accused the Syrian military of carrying out air strikes to help Islamic State fighters advance around the northern city of Aleppo, messages posted on the U.S. Embassy Syria official Twitter feed said. Islamic State fighters pushed back rival insurgents north of Aleppo on...

By George Hadad, Translation by Yusra Ahmed In the middle of Syrian crisis, the Ministry of Interior in Syria including the minister himself, were busy for 10 days in sorting out a gift given from “Fiorella Pasta Corporation” consisted of 15 tones of groats, Sugar and Pasta, and 600 cans of...

. Southern Front rebels on Tuesday thwarted ISIS attack on al-Lajat border region with Jordan, Alweyat al-Omary group said in time supporters of the radical Islamist group claimed gains by controlling three villages east of Daraa city. Rebel sources and activists assured an ISIS bid to control...

 Sepp Blatter on Tuesday resigned as president of FIFA as a mounting corruption scandal engulfed world football's governing body. The 79-year-old Swiss official, FIFA president for 17 years and only reelected on Friday, said a special congress would be called as soon as possible to...

 The Nusra Front claimed Tuesday that it had killed several Hezbollah militants and confiscated their weapons in an attack on two of the party’s outposts near Arsal’s outskirts. The jihadi group announced on its Twitter account that its militants attacked two Hezbollah positions between...

Russia Tuesday urged a U.S.-led coalition fighting against ISIS to coordinate their air raids with the Syrian government, warning that jihadis could go "very far" if not stopped. "It is absolutely clear to me it was a mistake - still is - not to coordinate the air strikes with the activities of...

ِAl Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, has executed sons of a tribe leader over charges of cooperating with Syrian regime army in northern Idlib province, activists said Tuesday. Nayef and Abdulhai, sons of Sheikh Nouri Nawaf al-Jerkh, head of al-Hadedeyin tribe, were beheaded after being...

An Egyptian court postponed on Tuesday issuing a final ruling over a death sentence recommendation for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders in a case related to a 2011 mass jail break. The judge said the case was postponed to June 16. The court...

Fajr al-Tawhid, Free Syrian Army unit, said 1000 fighters had finished their three-week training south of Syria, posting photos of the graduation ceremony via social media. Abu Mohammed al-Akhtaboot, training coordinator of Fajr al-Tawhi in Daraa province, said we hope to build up a...

Armed tribesmen killed 18 Houthi fighters in an ambush in Yemen's central province of Ibb Tuesday, residents said, in one of the deadliest ground attacks in over two months of war. The attack hit a convoy of militiamen and allied army troops in the town of Qaeda while they were en route to...