United Nations, (IANS/WAM) Syria has suffered $143.8 billion in economic losses due to the continuing civil war in the country, according to a new UN report. The joint report by the Syrian Centre for Policy Research and the UN says that even as the death toll from Syria's...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An al Qaeda renegade group killed 15 Kurdish people, seven of them children, in an attack on a village in northern Syria, a monitoring group and a photographer at the scene said on Friday. The attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which was...

A video posted online by Syrian activists showed a large exodus for civilians from the city of Idlib before the planned overrun to the last regime stronghold in the Northern Province by Islamists rebels. The Islamic authority of liberated areas in...

Translation by Dani Ahmed In a recent procedure by regime’s ministry of justice, a new formed committee has deliberated a proposal called the (temporary return) that suggests “to rent empty houses that their owners have left in the current crisis...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- The political committee within the National Coalition has decided to request from the United Nation to designate a representative for the Coalition within it and stop dealing with the Syrian regime’s...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Heavy fighting reported between al-Qaeda splinter group (ISIS) and Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in al-Hasakah province, leaving dozens killed, sources and monitoring groups said. Pro-ISIS websites reported that the State...

(Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members are considering a draft resolution to authorize cross-border aid deliveries into Syria at four points without government consent, diplomats said on Thursday, after an earlier council demand for greater access was ignored. The 15-member...

By Raed Omari    Jordan’s expulsion of the Syrian ambassador does not signal a dramatic change in the kingdom’s position on Syria, experts say. Jordan on Monday declared Bahjat Suleiman persona non grata and ordered him to leave within 24 hours, citing his...

(Al Arabiya News)- A former officer in Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards has been killed in fighting in Syria, Iranian media reported. Abdollah Eskandari had travelled to Syria, allegedly to defend the Sayyida Zeinab shrine in Damascus, a Shiite center of pilgrimage,...

Hundreds of Syrians living in Lebanon have lined up outside their embassy near Beirut to vote ahead of their country’s June 3 presidential election as expat balloting was extended for another day. President Bashar al-Assad is widely expected to get a third seven-year term in the vote...

The next few weeks and months could be decisive in destroying what remains of Syria's weapons of mass destruction. A quarter of the arsenal still remains with Assad and his regime wants to keep enough of that to threaten the world. On Tuesday, Syria’s state-run news agency reported...

(Al Arabiya- Joyce Karam)- There were no groundbreaking announcements or game changers on Syria in U.S. President Barack Obama’s “West Point” speech yesterday. But there was a shift, as Obama departed from his usual political talking points into embracing a counterterrorism approach...

Syria's rebel leaders have criticised foreign involvement in the war and blamed outside interference for the splits within the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. One of the founders of the Free Syrian Army, Riad al-Assad, said that the countries involved in the war in...

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Family members of a Michigan woman killed a year ago during fighting in Syria say they know little more now about her disappearance and death. Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of 33-year-old Nicole Mansfield's death. The Flint-area family hasn't...

(Writing by George Hadad: Translation by Dani Murad)   Zaman Alwasl continues to exclusively publish private documents that shed the light on one of the most important Shabiha’s strongholds in "Latakia." One of the published...

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 28 (Reuters) - The United Nations has confirmed that the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal will not be completed by June 30, a final deadline set as part of a 2013 deal that averted U.S. air strikes against Syrian President Bashar...

New extremist networks in Europe and the Middle East may emerge from the war in Syria as thousands of foreigners fight alongside local militants, the UN Security Council heard Wednesday. A report from the UN's Al-Qaeda sanctions committee raised specific fears of large numbers...

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies were examining social media postings purporting to show how an American who was fighting with an Al Qaeda affiliate blew himself up recently in a suicide attack in northern Syria, U.S. officials said....

(AFP)- Desperately needed medicines and medical supplies have reached the besieged Syrian town of Douma for the first time in a year and a half, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The United Nations' health agency said two of its trucks loaded with medical supplies...

CAIRO (AP) — With nearly all votes counted, Egypt's former military chief has won a crushing victory over his sole opponent with more than 92 percent of the votes, according to results announced by his campaign early Thursday. The campaign of retired field marshal Abdel-Fattah...