UNDATED (AP) — With the U.S.-led assault on the Islamic State group, the world community is acting in Syria, but not in the Syrian civil war. When it comes to the issue that has undermined the region — the survival or fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad — there is still no plan....

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- 43 bodies of detainees tortured to death by Syrian security forces were delivered to their families in al-Qaryatayn town, 85 km southeast Homs city, activists said on Friday. Locals of the desert town said its first time...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-   12 Syrians have been detained for two months in a refugees’ detention centre in Malta without clear reasons or any attempt to sort their matters out. The...

(Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stressed the need for honesty in internal government discussions on Thursday as he declined comment on a two-page internal memo he wrote on Syria policy, described as critical by people familiar with its contents. The...

(AL Jazeera)- A Syrian government helicopter has dropped two barrel bombs  on a camp for people displaced by fighting in the country's north, reportedly killing dozens and charring some bodies beyond recognition. Activists in Syria told Al Jazeera that 40 people were killed...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The outspoken new U.N. envoy on Syria said Thursday he is pursuing an "action plan" that involves freezing the conflict in certain areas, possibly starting with Aleppo, to allow for humanitarian aid and local steps of a political process toward wider peace....

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HASAKA (Zaman Al Wasl)-Islamic State for Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” with the Democratic Union Party “PYD” share control of Hasaka’s countryside. Each one of them created its own institutions...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Syrian opposition’s government on Thursday decided to reduce salaries of its workers into half, amid a series of austerity procedures issued by the West-backed group. Ahmed To’meh, the Interim Prime Minister said the cut in the salaries will not exclude...

(Reuters) - After Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahda conceded defeat in Sunday's parliamentary elections, there were no fireworks, concerts or cheering rallies outside the headquarters of its rival, the secular Nidaa Tounes alliance. Instead it was Ennahda's leader Rached...

(Reuters) - The Swedish government officially recognized the state of Palestine on Thursday and said there were signs other European Union states would follow its lead. Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom told reporters her government hoped it would bring a new dynamic...

(Reuters) - Lebanese troops detained 50 people in raids on towns and Syrian refugee camps in the north of the country, the army said on Thursday, part of a security crackdown after battles with Islamist gunmen over the weekend. The army has mounted several raids since Islamist...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants executed at least 220 Iraqis in retaliation against a tribe's opposition to their takeover of territory west of Baghdad, security sources and witnesses said. Two mass graves were discovered on Thursday containing some of the 300 members of...

(Reuters) - Israel should investigate all alleged violations committed by its forces during three recent wars in Gaza and ensure military commanders are brought to justice for any crimes, a U.N. human rights watchdog said on Thursday. A panel of independent experts urged...

(Reuters) - A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help push back Islamic State militants who have defied U.S. air strikes and threatened to massacre its Kurdish defenders. Kobani, on the border with Turkey...

(Reuters) - Israeli police on Thursday shot dead a 32-year-old Palestinian man suspected of having tried hours earlier to kill a far-right Jewish activist, leading to fierce clashes in East Jerusalem and fears of a new Palestinian uprising. The Al-Aqsa compound, or Temple...

(AFP)- A UN official visiting Syria has called for greater access to a besieged Palestinian refugee camp outside Damascus, where residents say they have been without water for some 40 days. Speaking to AFP, the deputy commissioner general for the UN agency for Palestinian...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military conducted 14 air strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command. U.S. forces in Syria made eight strikes near the key Syrian border town...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents freed 25 Kurdish school children on Wednesday, the last of more than 150 children kidnapped in May to be released, a Kurdish official and a rights group said. The hardline Sunni Muslim group, which has fought Kurdish...

(AFP)- Syrian government aircraft dropped barrel bombs on a camp for displaced people in the northwestern province of Idlib on Wednesday killing at least 10 people, a monitoring group said. The strikes came as a car bomb wounded at least 37 people, including children, in a...

Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HAMA (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aqrab, a small town in Hama’s Western South countryside, midway between Homs and Hama, of Turkman majority and some Alawite, nearly 2000 people out of total 12 thousand. It is surrounded by...