Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have launched a major offensive on the outskirts of the besieged city of Homs, state media and its loyalist outlets reported. Al-Alam, an Iranian satellite channel, reported on Saturday that the extensive military action aimed at purging the...

At least nine people were killed when Syrian regime helicopters dropped explosive-filled barrels on two neighbourhoods of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported at least seven people killed in a double car...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked Russia's foreign minister on Friday to put pressure on the Syrian government to accelerate the removal of chemical weapons, which Kerry said is not happening quickly enough. Kerry met Russia's Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the Munich...

More than 20 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) have been killed in clashes with the Islamic Front in Al Raei, border town with Turkey, east countryside of Aleppo, IF sources told Zaman Alwasl. Reports say that Islamist rebels seek to take...

Some 2,500 Syrians trapped in the besieged Old City of Homs have become pawns in complex negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition, with aid agencies caught up in an ethical dilemma amid reports of starvation. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, who ran week-long talks that...

Syria is transferring some of its most prized weapon systems to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to US officials cited by leading US newspapers, according to  JANEs Defence Magazine . The Wall Street Journal reported on 2 January that Yakhont anti-ship missile...

  Despite the slim pickings from a week of UN-brokered peace talks between Syria's warring sides, getting them to the table at all was a huge feat in itself. But for international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, that was all in a day's work in a job that requires patience,...

Two roadside bombs exploded near a patrol car in Cairo Friday, and police fired tear gas at supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Alexandria, security officials in Egypt said. One policeman was slightly wounded when his patrol car was hit by two roadside bombs in a Cairo...

A senior al Qaeda operative based in Iran and known as Yasin al Suri (a.k.a. Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil) is "more active than ever" and facilitating al Qaeda's global operations,  Al Jazeera  reports . Al Suri's role as al Qaeda's point man inside Iran was first exposed by...

Syria's government may have madelegitimizing blunder by turning up at peace talks in Geneva since it had little to gain, little room for maneuver and may have started down a slippery slope by legitimizing its opponents, diplomats say according to Reuters. But its chief...

  A week of talks between the Syrian regime and the opposition national coalition in Geneva ended on Friday without and tangible results, Syrian Foreign Minister  said. “I regret to tell you that we have not reached tangible results during this week,” Walid Muallem...

A contentious week-long first round of Syrian peace talks ended on Friday with no progress towards ending the civil war and the government delegation unable to say whether it will return for the next round in 10 days. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, who has tirelessly pursued a...

  The mother of the British doctor Abbas Khan who died in Syrian government custody last month did not only confront the Syrian delegation in Geneva screaming: “Why did you kill my son?” but she revealed the harrowing answers she purportedly received. In one YouTube...

  A first round of peace talks on Syria wraps up Friday with both sides in entrenched positions and the U.N. mediator expressing frustration that it had not even been possible to get agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged city of Homs. After a week of talks...

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  Editor's note: George Newcomb is an American Photographer and a hardliner advocate for Syrian people and its revolution in the United States; he gained peerless respect within activists’ ranks. Newcomb studied political science at Howard University in Washington, DC. He...

Nearly 50 Syrian women came together from within and outside Syria at a conference, facilitated by UN Women, from 11 to 13 January 2014 in Geneva to appeal for peace, to call for a voice in the ongoing political negotiations on their country -- particularly during the "Geneva II" peace...

A first round of peace talks on Syria wraps up Friday with both sides in entrenched positions and the U.N. mediator expressing frustration that it had not even been possible to get agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged city of Homs. After a week of talks at the United...

A food convoy gained entry Thursday to Syria's besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, where dozens have died from shortages of food and medicines, the UN and Syrian state media said. UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) spokesman Chris Gunness said 600 food parcels...

  The Lebanese army has seized a vehicle at a checkpoint between the Syria-Lebanon border near the northeastern Lebanese town of Arsal. Three men of unknown nationality were arrested after it was allegedly discovered that their car was full of arms and ammunition....