Syria is committed to its main regional ally Iran attending a planned peace conference next month to which it has yet to be invited, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Sunday. "Syria is committed to Iran joining the peace conference and it is illogical to exclude it," the official...
A suicide attacker set off a bomb in the entrance hall of a Russian train station on Sunday, investigators said, killing at least 16 people in the second deadly attack within three days as Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. Authorities said the attacker detonated a...
Since year ago, al-Qaeda main branch in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, had kidnapped 18 Syrian civilians from Durze community in al-Thaala village near Umm Walad in Daraa, despite the fact that the inhabitants of this village played an important role in providing aid and relief to...
Mourners chanting anti-Hezbollah slogans laid to rest former Lebanese minister Mohamad Chatah on Sunday after he was killed by a car bomb his allies blame on the powerful Shi'ite group. Friday's attack on Chatah, a Sunni who was a vocal critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
"We live a life which no one can stand" That's how the 73-year old woman started to speak. "I live the hardest times in my life. I have Blood Pressure, problems in my thyroid and in short of Calcium. I can't find my medications as they're not available because of the siege." This...
A series of chasing Syrian media activists and Journalists in north Syrian to be continued by the radical Islamist group, The State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL). ISIL stormed Kafranbel Media center in Idlib province Saturday night and had arrested 6 activists after...
Regime air strikes on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo have killed at least 517 people since December 15, including 151 children, a monitor said on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a string of regime aerial attacks on the province, including second city...
Britain should take in refugees from the brutal conflict in Syria, the leader of the eurosceptic UK Independence Party Nigel Farage said Sunday. The comments are unexpected from Farage, who has led opposition to the lifting of limits on migrants from Bulgaria and Romania on January 1,...
Lebanon's Ambassador to Syria Michel Khoury will be referred to retirement at the end of December, which will prompt a vacancy in the post, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday. It said that Speaker Nabih Berri's daughter, Farah, may be appointed as his...
That half of his farm lies in Syria and half in Lebanon is a source of mystery and inconvenience for Mohammed al-Jamal, whose family owned the property long before Europeans turned up and drew the lines that created the borders of the modern Middle East. Jamal has mostly...
Syria is "unlikely" to meet a December 31 deadline to move its most dangerous chemical arms out of the country, the United Nations acknowledged for the first time Saturday. The UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said...
Activists have circulated online a photo for an old man has been died due to the siege and lack of food and medicine in Jourat al-Shayyah in the blockaded Homs. The rebellious neighborhoods in Homs have been suffering a severe siege for over months by Assad Army, no food or medicine,...
Radical Islamist group, The State of Iraq and The Levant has been freed Lieutenant-Colonel and FSA commander, Ahmed al-Saud, who was kidnapped ten days ago in Idlib province by the ISIL, activists said. ''Anyone working for a free and peaceful Syria is either killed...
Bashar al-Assad has sent Pope Francis a private message, the Vatican said on Saturday, without disclosing its contents. The Vatican said a delegation headed by Joseph Sweid, a Syrian minister of state, held talks in the Vatican with the pope’s secretary of state, Archbishop...
A Lebanese teenager seen posing for a group “selfie” in front of a bomb-laden car moments before it exploded in the capital Beirut died of his injuries on Saturday. “The number of victims from the attack rose to seven after the death of young Mohammad al-Chaar...
Activists say a Syrian government airstrike on a crowded vegetable market in a rebel-held neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least 20 people. For nearly two weeks, President Bashar Assad's warplanes and helicopters have pounded...
A key faction of Syria’s opposition accused the Syrian regime, Iran and Hezbollah of being behind the bomb attack that took place on Friday in Beirut, killing a prominent Lebanese politician. The car bomb that blew up in the Downtown district at the heart of the Lebanese...
Deadly toxins that were to have been removed from Syria by December 31 under an international effort to rid the country of its chemical arsenal have not yet been delivered to port to be put on ships, a Russian diplomat was quoted as saying on Friday. The deadline will...
Again and again the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights raises outrage within Syrian opposition by distorting the facts and being too biased to Basher Al Assad’s side, activists said. The recent news by Rami Abdul Rahman, the only man who runs the...
Spain will hold a meeting of Syrian opposition groups in early January ahead of next month's planned peace talks, known as "Geneva 2", aimed at halting the three-year war in Syria, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said according to Reuters. Rajoy, speaking...
