(AFP)- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad formed a new government on Wednesday, two months after his reelection, leaving key ministries untouched as a brutal war continues to ravage his country. The new line-up includes 11 new ministers, but leaves Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi,...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters have taken control of a border crossing on the line dividing Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Wednesday. The fighters, who have vowed...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers and are holding a group hostage after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, pictures posted on social media by supporters showed on Wednesday. Islamic State, an offshoot of al Qaeda,...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cluster bomb attacks and unexploded munitions killed or injured nearly 1,600 people in Syria in the past two years – 97 percent of them civilians – an international campaign group said on Wednesday. Both South Sudan, the world’s newest...

(Zaman Alwasl)- 5 Rebel factions in the embattled Eastern Ghouta near Damascus have agreed to form a Joint military command and to appoint Islam Army commander as General Chief, days after the fall of strategic Mleiha town by Syrian army forces....

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's ruling party convened on Wednesday to confirm Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as its new chairman and prime minister-designate, to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he becomes president — a position he has pledged to transform from a ceremonial post to...

Beirut (AFP) - Syrian rebels, including Al-Qaeda's affiliate Al-Nusra Front, seized control of the Syrian crossing with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday, a monitoring group said. "Al-Nusra Front and other rebel groups took the Quneitra crossing, and heavy fighting...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Leader of Syria revolutionaries Front called on rebels’ Supreme Military Council to hold its meetings in rebel-held areas instead of Istanbul since all rebel commanders have no ability to attend any of it. Jamal Maarouf, member of SMC,...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian expatriate in United Arab Emirates can renew their expired passports as they can apply for new ones regardless of any other considerations, Syrian Embassy in Abu Dhabi declared on its official website. The announcement that...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The Islamic State group, which seized Mosul in June and also controls swathes of territory in neighboring Syria, has posted online first images and footage for its last gains, al-Tabqa airbase east Syria. Dozens of slain soldiers and...

By Mohanad Hage Ali (Al Arabiya)- For Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and elsewhere, their plight is similar. Rape, sexual harassment at work and on the streets, homelessness, racism, and job exploitation are regular occurrences. In Turkey, where the number of Syrian...

An American man suspected of fighting with Islamic State militants operating in Iraq and Syria has been killed in the region, a U.S. security official said on Monday. The official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that the FBI was investigating the death of 33-year-old...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Members of the hardline Islamic State group, which seized Mosul in June and also controls swathes of territory in neighboring Syria, have shot, beheaded and crucified 3473 people, mostly Syrians, since the group appeared in Syria in 2013,...

Celebrations erupted in Gaza on Tuesday as a long-term ceasefire agreed by Israel and the Palestinians went into effect, ending 50 days of the deadliest violence in a decade. The agreement, which came into effect at 1600 GMT, involves an immediate halt to the violence in Gaza,...

(Reuters) - Palestinian officials said on Tuesday a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel has been reached under Egyptian mediation and a formal announcement of an agreement was imminent. There was no immediate confirmation from Israel , where a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin...

(CNN) -- The shocking video of James Foley being beheaded in Syria has set off multiple investigations into the mystery of who killed the American journalist. A day after the British ambassador to the United States said that experts in his country are close to identifying...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Rebel factions on Monday in embattled Eastern Ghouta agreed to appoint Islam Army commander as General Chief, days after the fall of strategic Mleiha town by Syrian army forces. Source to Zaman Alwasl said rebels in neighboring suburbs...

(AP) — The U.S. has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK, U.S. officials said, a move that could pave the way for airstrikes against Islamic State militant targets there. While the White House says Obama has not approved military action...

(Reuters) - Suspected Kurdish militants have kidnapped three Chinese engineers in southeast Turkey near the border with Iraq and Syria , security sources said on Monday. The workers were seized from a shop in the border town of Silopi late on Sunday by suspected members of...

(Reuters) - Australia unveiled counter-terrorism measures on Tuesday to prevent young people from becoming radicalized and going to fight in overseas conflicts such as Iraq and Syria , where scores of Australians have joined militant jihadist groups. Along with the...