The United Nations has been forced to cut the size of food parcels for those left hungry by Syria's civil war by a fifth because of a shortage of funds from donors, a senior official said on Monday. Nevertheless, the United Nations' World Food Programme managed to get food...

Iran said it hopes enough progress will be made with major powers this week to enable negotiators to start drafting by mid-May a final accord to settle a long-running dispute over its nuclear program. The Islamic Republic and six world powers will hold a new round of talks in...

The most powerful rebel alliance fighting in Aleppo province released a video Monday announcing “the first stage” of what they are calling the “I’tassam” campaign targeting a number of military sites in and around Aleppo. The campaign by the Joint Operations Room “will target the...

A masked gunman opened fire on a well-known, elderly Dutch priest in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, killing him instantly, a fellow priest, an activist group and Syria's state-run media said. Father Francis Van Der Lugt was gunned down inside a monastery in the...

Twenty-eight rebel combatants holding out in encircled Old Homs surrendered themselves and their weapons to regime forces Monday, official government news agency SANA reported. Their surrender comes one day after around 30 rebels were killed when an explosive-laden tank blew up...

Jabhat a-Nusra spokesman Abdallah Azzam a-Shami announced early Monday morning that rebel fighters had  mounted a suicide attack  and ground operation to “demolish Hezbollah and [Iranian] Republican Guard strongholds” in the town of Ras al-Ain, southwest of the...

As many as 60 Syrian physicians have been expelled from the country's Doctors Syndicate for treating rebels fighting to topple the Syrian administration, local media reported Sunday. The doctors' expulsion came against the backdrop of their "communication with armed groups",...

The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper. In an interview with daily newspaper As-Safir, Hassan Nasrallah also said the threat of bombings in...

A recent UNRWA report detailed the ‘economic catastrophe’ wrought by the Syrian conflict. If the conflict were to end today, the UN agency said, Syria’s economy would take 30 years to recover to 2010 levels. A chunk of that devastation is measured in the years...

A Jewish state in Saudi Arabia? One Paris-based Russian Jew threw this unorthodox proposal on the table in 1917, according to a recently revealed official British document. The strategy, which proposed an army of 120,000 Jewish soldiers invading the Gulf, was one man’s solution to...

Khaled Hosseini, author of 'The Kite Runner' and a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, visits a Syrian refugee camp in Kurdish Iraq and is moved by families desperate to provide for themselves and not to be reliant on the generosity of local people In the Kurdish region of Iraq, I sit...

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  More than 30 rebels including field commanders were killed Sunday in a huge explosion in the country's central province of Homs. Homs-based activists said the huge explosion at the Jouret al- Shayah area in the old quarter of Homs was caused by a government troops' Grad missile...

The Western-backed opposition Syrian National Coalition held elections for the body’s political commission and its health, education and interior ministers on Sunday during the second day of a three-day conference in Istanbul. Dr. Muhi al-Din Bananeh won Education portfolio...

The Islamic Front’s Ansar a-Sham released a video Saturday purporting to show its fighters transporting Armenian citizens from the northwestern Syrian town of Kessab to meet relatives on the Turkish border, in an apparent response to public concerns over the fate of Kessab’s Armenian...

Pro-rebel media on Sunday denied reports that Syrian forces had seized a-Ta’aneh hill overlooking the Sheikh Najar industrial area in northern Aleppo, five kilometers east of the Aleppo Central Prison. The pro-government newspaper al-Watan called Saturday’s campaign for...

Syrian government forces have   launched a campaign   to uproot rebel forces from the areas of Eastern and Western Ghouta in Outer Damascus in order to secure the Syrian capital and the route to the Damascus International Airport, according to pro-Assad Lebanese daily...

One Syrian was killed and two hospitalized while 28 members of Jordanian security forces were injured during a protest inside Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan Saturday. Accounts of the incident differ between Jordanian security forces and Syrian activists. Jordanian...

Two people were killed when mortar fire hit the grounds of the Damascus Opera House in the Syrian capital, state media said on Sunday. Government forces are also battling rebels in Damascus' outskirts including the eastern suburb of Mleiha, which saw heavy fighting on...

Bader Jamoos, the General Secretary for the Syrian National Coalition, has confirmed that the Coalition has started very important and serious steps toward organizing and reforming its interior structure, and has been successful in founding a new effective structure. The...