Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to hold talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Doha on Monday for the first meeting since their rival movements signed a surprise unity deal. "Abbas will meet Meshaal today (in Doha) but the timing is not clear," a senior Palestinian official...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say rockets have slammed into a government-held district in the northern city of Aleppo, killing 9 people. The SANA state news agency said on Monday that the overnight attack occurred in Aleppo's residential neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh....

AFP, Zaatari- The United Nations on Sunday rebuked donors for not doing enough to help millions of Syrian refugees in the region as well as host countries, saying “massive” aid is needed. “These countries received about three million registered and...

By George Hadad; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Only in Syrian Regime: a minor police officer owns 11 properties worth more than a Pillion Syrian Pounds. A recent official document revealed the extent of corruption in the police system in Syrian...

Zaman Alwasl Exclusive Interview with the daughter of former Syrian President Adib al-Shishakli (1949-1954). Interview by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Yusra Ahmed __ Adib al-Shishakli, (born 1909, Ḥ amah, Syria—died...

Al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qaeda franchise in Syria, has seized a moderate rebel commander in the southern province of Daraa, a monitoring group said on Sunday. "Al-Nusra Front last night arrested the head of the Military Council of Daraa, Colonel Ahmad...

Reuters, Beirut- A Syrian court said on Sunday it had accepted requests from President Bashar al-Assad and two other candidates to be nominated to run in a presidential election next month. Assad’s challengers are unlikely to pose a serious threat to...

  AFP, Beirut - Activists in Syria's Homs have released a grim video satire in which they find gallows humour in two years spent under a crippling army siege and frequent bombardment. The YouTube clip, entitled "Official Statement," takes the form of a...

   AFP, Beirut   Around 60,000 people have fled towns in Deir Ezzor province of eastern Syria that have been the scene of fierce clashes between rival jihadists, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The battle between al-Qaeda affiliate...

At least 13 people were killed by mortar fire in government-held areas of Syria on Saturday, including central Damascus, a monitoring group and state media said, just days after President Bashar al-Assad said he would seek another term in office. The attacks occurred as activists...

BEIRUT (AP) — The planned evacuation of fighters from rebel-held parts of the Syrian city of Homs was delayed Saturday, activists said, though a cease-fire still was holding in the country's third-largest city. Rebels in the city agreed Friday to surrender the territory in...

The Associated Press, Washington-  The flow of foreign fighters into Syria has grown in just the last few months, with dozens of Americans joining the county's conflict along with thousands of Europeans, FBI Director James Comey said Friday. U.S. law enforcement...

  (CNN) -- It is a scene seared forever into the memory of an eyewitness: Masked men drag the bloodied body of a man across a public square, and tie it to a make-shift cross on a metal pole. Green string holds the body's arms...

Attacks north of Baghdad, including a car bomb set off by a suicide attacker, killed six people on Friday, just days after Iraq's parliamentary election. The bloodshed comes with officials counting votes from Wednesday's polls, the first since US troops withdrew in late 2011,...

Dozens of people were killed in a fire and others were shot dead when fighting between pro- and anti-Russian groups broke out on the streets of Odessa on Ukraine's Black Sea coast on Friday. In the country's east, pro-Russian separatists brought down two Ukrainian military...

By Abdullah Raja; Translation by Yusra Ahmed In an interview with Zaman Alwasl, Mustafa Sabbagh, the National coalition member, said that the National Coalition confirmed in Geneva2 its support and acceptance to a political solution to solve...

Britain intends to resume the delivery of non-lethal aid to rebels in Syria after it was suspended in December following advances by Islamist groups, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced. The £1 million ($1.7 million, 1.2 million euros) worth of communications...

                  Reporting by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad       Leaked Documents unveil some of the...

  Syria’s government and rebels have reached a deal under which opposition fighters holed up in besieged parts of Homs city will withdraw during a ceasefire, an NGO said on Friday.   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a truce was already in place in the Old...

Prominent media activist Hussein al-Abbas has been killed by Bashar al-Assad's forces on Wednesday, Dumeir Local Coordination reported without elaborating where or how he lost his life. Al-Abbas was considered one of most active citizen-journalists...