Dubai (AFP)- Al-Qaeda's leader ordered the group's Syrian affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, to end fighting with its jihadist rivals, in an audiotape posted online on Friday. Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a message to Al-Nusra chief Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, ordered that "all soldiers of the front...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Car bombs struck two small villages in the central Syrian province of Hama on Friday, killing 18 people, including 11 children, state-run television said, the latest in relentless daily violence that is ravaging Syria. The TV said the rigged vehicles...

Zaman Alwasl mourns Syrian Journalist Belal Ahmed Belal who tortured to death in Bashar al-Assad's prisons after three years of detention. On April 29, the Regime security told Belal's family that their son and father of two children had passed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly before Abdul Waheed Majeed, a 41-year-old British truck driver, blew himself up in an attack on a Syrian prison, he brushed aside a question in Arabic. "I'm sorry, I can't speak it," he said in a video. "My tongue bro'... it's got like a knot in...

PARIS (Reuters) - France said it had deported on Thursday an Algerian national suspected of recruiting young French Muslims to join the Syrian civil war, the first such case since Paris unveiled a raft of policies to stop its citizens from becoming radicalized. France, which...

(AFP) A total of 24 Syrians have registered to run in next month's presidential election, including incumbent President Bashar al-Assad, the Supreme Constitutional Court announced Thursday as the application deadline expired. The vote, scheduled for June 3, is expected to return...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 33 people were killed when Syrian government warplanes attacked a busy market in a rebel-controlled district of Aleppo on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Activists in the area put the death count as high as 40 and said...

Geneva, (IANS) A day after three attacks in Syria, the Unicef said Wednesday it was outraged by the latest wave of indiscriminate attacks in the country that have left dozens of children killed and injured, Xinhua reported. UN International Children's Emergency Fund ,or Unicef...

(Reuters) - The search has started for a replacement for Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, who diplomatic sources say is planning to resign in the near future, largely out of frustration at Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's plans to hold an election in June. There are several...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday condemned a car bombing in Syrian city of Homs, which left killed 36 people and injured many more. "These are horrendous acts of terror against innocent civilians," Xinhua quoted a statement issued by Ban's spokesperson as saying....

BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes between Syrian government forces and opposition fighters killed 14 rebels in a flare-up overnight along a strategic corridor between Damascus and the Lebanese border, activists said Thursday. The fighting in Zabadani — a town near Damascus and the last rebel...

  The United States disapproves of a decision by its Gulf ally Bahrain to sign an investment cooperation deal with Russia at a time when U.S. and European governments are imposing economic sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, an official said. "With Russia...

    When the armed opposition in Syrian realized that there would not be a serious military support by the so-called “Friends of Syria” countries, they started to rely on themselves to produce arms locally, rebel commander said.  ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that while al Qaeda's Pakistan-based "core organization" had been severely degraded, affiliates of the militant group in Africa and the Middle East were becoming more "operationally autonomous" and aggressive. The...

Syria's air force killed at least 18 people Wednesday, including 10 children, in the latest strike on the battered city of Aleppo, as civilians continue to bear the brunt of the civil war. The air strikes came a day after at least 100 people, including some 80 civilians, died...

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities have arrested a French-Algerian man suspected of participating in terrorist activity in Syria and helping Europeans enter the country to join jihadist groups. Spain's Interior Ministry says Abdelmalek Tanem was detained in the southeastern region...

The National Basketball Association's 29 team owners will likely vote to force Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers after he was banned for life for racist comments, some of the owners said on Wednesday. As it appeared more likely the team would be put up for sale,...

Germany has granted a political asylum for number of Syrian opposition personalities, well-informed sources within the National Coalition said on Wednesday. The veteran dissident Haitham al-Maleh, NC member and head of legal committee, and businessman...

Reporting by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad Despite all the huge armament contracts and deals made by regime’s ministry of interior, two official documents revealed the severe shortage in stocks in the ministry’s warehouses, and its inability to meet the...

The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday Egypt's sentencing of 683 people to death breached international law and urged Cairo authorities to ensure defendants' rights to a fair and timely trial. An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim...