First episode of Syrian sitcom ‘President and Women’,  produced by Zaman Alwasl, is streaming today on YouTube, where viewers can weekly watch the episodes of the series. The political sitcom follows in a comedian approach the relationship between presidents of the...

Lebanon announced a new government on Saturday, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which spillover violence from neighboring Syria worsened internal instability. A caretaker government has run the country since former Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned in March as...

  Syria  has added opposition delegates at peace talks in Geneva to a "terrorist list" and seized their assets, including the house of one of them, anti-government negotiators and a diplomat said on Saturday. The opposition delegation only learnt of the decision when a...

    Saudi Arabia has  agreed to provide rebels there with more sophisticated weaponry, including shoulder-fired missiles that can take down jets, according to Western and Arab diplomats and opposition figures, The Wall Street Journal reports. Saudi Arabia...

International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Saturday the first two rounds of Syrian peace talks had not made much progress but that the two sides had agreed on an agenda for a third round at an unspecified date. Brahimi said the last session of the second round of talks in...

Rebels detonated mines in tunnels under a hotel used by the army in northern Syria's Aleppo on Friday, killing at least five soldiers, a monitoring group said. "Islamist rebels dug several tunnels under and around the Carlton hotel in Aleppo's Old City, where government...

The death toll of al-Yadouda car explosion in Daraa yesterday rose to 47 people, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Activists have accused regime forces of carrying out the attack near a mosque in al-Yadouda town, the number of martyrs is likely to...

President  Barack Obama  said on Friday he is considering new ways to pressure the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he pledged fresh U.S. assistance to Jordan's King Abdullah, whose country is reeling from the Syrian civil war. Obama and Abdullah held...

Leading Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri vowed on Friday to tackle sectarian radicalism in his Sunni sect but said Shi'ite Hezbollah must end its involvement in  Syria  if Lebanon is to avoid being drawn into a "sectarian holocaust". Citing the example set by his...

National Coalition president, Ahmad Assi al-Jarab, visited Friday rebel-held areas in Idlib province, Activists, who have circulated a photo for Jraba with other rebel commanders, said the purpose of the visit was to offer condolences to the family of Yaser Qarmouz,...

Violent explosions rocked the city of Tal Abyad border with Turkey on Friday night, the blast was caused by an attempt to target the State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) headquarters in the town’s church with RBJ missiles fired by unknown assailants, Activists said....

Three years after Bahraini security forces subdued a popular uprising, the ruling family has launched a new dialogue with opponents to tackle simmering discontent; but a breakthrough remains elusive. Bahrain's fellow conservative Gulf Arab states and the West have a stake in the...

   Syria   has relinquished only 11 percent of its chemical weapons in three shipments and is on track to miss a politically-loaded midyear deadline to completely destroy the toxic stockpile, sources told Reuters on Friday. Syria  should already have handed...

Russia  and NATO are drawing up plans for a rare joint naval operation in the Mediterranean to protect the U.S. ship that will destroy Syria's deadliest chemical weapons, officials and other sources said. The operation would be a symbolic breakthrough at a time when...

An al Qaeda splinter group in  Syria  executed at least 21 people including fighters from rival rebel groups and their relatives, a monitoring group said on Friday, an incident that could worsen infighting among enemies of President Bashar al-Assad. The Islamic State...

Waiting among a group of evacuees from Homs for questioning by Syrian security forces, Hodwan al-Masri knew he could not hide his identity. "I am a known brigade commander, with my face all over social media," he said. Masri left the besieged city during a week-old...

Asaad Mustafa, Defence Minister of the opposition interim government has resigned today due to the lack of an active role on the ground, he said in statement delivered to the Key opposition group, National Coalition and the Interim Prime Minister Ahmed Toumeh.  The...

Thousands of people have fled a rebel-held town in Syria  after it was bombed and shelled in an operation that has prompted fears of a major assault by ground troops, the  United Nations  said on Friday. The fighting came as peace talks in Geneva neared the end...

A fresh round of U.N.-brokered peace talks between Syria's government and opposition has made no progress, the two sides said Friday. "We deeply regret that this round did not make any progress," Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad told reporters as both sides traded blame...

The United Nations on Friday halted the evacuation of civilians from the blockaded city of Homs until the fate of men detained from the rebel-held areas becomes clear, a senior U.N. official said. The development came just a day after a cease-fire was extended for three more days, the...