More than 300 people have been killed in a week of air raids on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and nearby towns by President Bashar Assad’s forces, a monitoring group said on Monday. Many of the casualties, who included scores of women and children, were...

  At least 32 Nusra Front gunmen were killed in east Lebanon in a weekend ambush sprung by Hezbollah fighters, a senior security source said Monday, adding that a member of the Lebanese group was also killed in ensuing fighting. The ambush took place early Saturday...

Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received Head of the Government of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Dr. Ahmed Toumeh and his accompanying delegation on the occasion of their visit to Qatar. The Qatari News Agency said the two...

  Chemical weapons being transported from Syria will be moved with the help of 25 armored trucks and 50 other vehicles sent by Russia, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday. The toxins are to be destroyed under an international agreement to rid the nation of its...

Free Syrian Army leaders in Eastern province Deir Zour warned of the mounting influence of Al Qaeda affiliated groups in rebels due to the deteriorating power of moderate fighting groups, Zaman Alwasl reporter said.  If the situation continues the FSA will be about...

 Italian government has said that it supports Iran's positive presence in Geneva II conference on Syria. "We want positive presence of Iran in the international conference of Geneva II on Syria crisis," Xinhua reported citing Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino here Sunday in a...

At least six people have been killed on Sunday in the central Syrian province of Homs, five of them schoolchildren, the official SANA news agency reported. “Terrorists blew up a car bomb near the primary school in the town of Omm al-Amd in the countryside outside Homs,...

    An employee of a money transfer service in Syria claimed that the Syrian government has issued a decision banning the sending of remittances to non-Syrians inside the country, a Palestinian organization said on Friday,  Ma’an News Agency said. An employee of...

 By ramping up his demands of any final nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to stem the tide of international diplomacy which has turned against him in recent weeks. Netanyahu was stung by an interim agreement...

Syrian cyber activists have circulated online a photo for 10-year-old wounded girl in border Turkish hospital, was injured due to the ongoing Assad offensive on Aleppo by barrel bombs. The girl and her father, who missed her during the shelling, were the only family...

    At least 100 people, including children, were killed on Sunday when Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised "barrel bombs" in the northern province of Aleppo, local activists said. Human Rights Watch said in a report over the weekend that barrel bomb...

Half a million people across war-hit Syria have been wounded, many of them lacking access to basic healthcare and treatment, the International Committee for the Red Cross said on Sunday. "At least half a million people have been wounded across the country and millions remain displaced and...

 Dozens of people were killed in an eighth day of air strikes on Aleppo in Syria on Sunday, a watchdog said, as a bombing in Homs killed five schoolchildren. "Dozens of people were killed or wounded" in attacks that saw loyalist warplanes drop so-called barrel bombs near...

  Abu Shamel, a Suicide bomber who was responsible of the famous Tamico blast  last October, has been killed  after detonating himself  in Adra, northeast Damascus, killing 60 soldiers of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, activists said. The fighter who...

Syrian security forces detained another member of the regime-tolerated opposition on Saturday, his party said, accusing the authorities of trying to "terrorise" the group into silence. "This morning (Saturday), Monzer Khaddam, a member of the National Coordination Body's executive...

  Syrian actress Nanda Mohammad trained Syrian refugee women for six weeks to reinterpret "The Trojan Women", a tragedy by Greek playwright Euripides on the Greeks' treatment of Trojan women after the fall of Troy. "The Syria Trojan Women" traces the parallels between the...

The body of a British doctor who died earlier this week in a Syrian prison, only days before he was expected to be freed after 13 months of detention, has arrived in Beirut en route to the United Kingdom. A Red Cross ambulance carried the coffin of Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old...

 The destiny of youngest convicted prisoner, Tal Al Mallouhi, still vague after 4 years of detention and two months of court verdict to be freed. A security source assured that Al Malouhi was taken as a ‘hostage’ by State Security Branch 258 in Damascus from Adra...

A total of 126 journalists and other media workers around the world have died on the job this year, with  Syria  the most dangerous place to work for the second year in a row, the International News Safety Institute said on Friday. That was 21 fewer than last year, but...

 Syrian forces are "wreaking disaster" on Aleppo, killing hundreds in air strikes on the city, Human Rights Watch said Saturday, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks with Iran's foreign minister.    "The Syrian air force is either criminally...