Opponents of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have been at an impossible disadvantage since the start of the Syrian conflict because the United States and Britain refused to help them, an influential Saudi Arabian prince said on Saturday. The United States and Britain suspended...
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday that the moderate opposition to the Syrian regime was in "serious difficulty" and that long-delayed peace talks aimed at ending the crisis were in trouble. "The moderate opposition that we support is in serious difficulty," Fabius said...
A Danish and a Norwegian frigate are anchored in the Cypriot port of Limassol awaiting orders to sail for Syria and help collect part of the regime's deadly chemical arsenal. When the call comes, they will escort two cargo ships -- one from each country -- to Syria's Latakia, where...
A rebel commander has frozen to death due to the biting cold brought by a snowstorm that has swept Syria this week, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that "the body of...
Jamal Ma’rouf, commander of Syria Revolutionaries Front agreed to end up disputes with the Islamic Front after mediation reconciliation committee was formed by Islamist commanders. Ma’arouf who based in northern Idlib countryside has demanded the immediate release of all...
Syrian rebel commanders from the Islamic Front which seized control of bases belonging to Western-backed rebels last week are due to hold talks with U.S. officials in Turkey in coming days, rebel and opposition sources said on Saturday. The expected contacts between...
Rebels Military council secretary and Ababeel brigade commander Capt. Ammar al-Wawi has been freed after 5 days of abduction near Turkish border by unknown Armed group, his brother said on his Facebook page. Capt. Al-Wawi and his 3 accompaniers...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to sanction those responsible for Syrian chemical weapons attacks documented in a newly released report. The UN report, issued Thursday, concluded that such banned arms were used at least five times before Damascus agreed to...
Syrian children have suffered the "sharpest and most rapid" decline in education standards in the history of the region, UN and aid agencies said in a report published Friday. "Nearly three years of brutal conflict in Syria have reversed more than a decade of progress in children's...
Islamist rebels linked to al Qaeda kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians on Friday from a village near the Turkish border in Aleppo province, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters entered...
Syrian opposition leaders called on Western and Arab allies on Friday to give them funding to reorganise their forces after Islamist fighters seized some of their weapons. Monzer Akbik, chief of staff in the Syrian National Coalition, said an attack by Islamists on warehouses and...
The British-based Human Rights Observatory has sparkled Syrian activists outrage over lack of credibility and partiality to Assad regime despite of describing it by Reuters as pro-opposition. Ghazwan al-Hakim, prominent field doctor in rebel-held areas in eastern...
9 Syrian children have been died so far due to snow storm, Syrian Network for Human Rights said. 4 infants have died in Jarablus refugee camp in Minbij, and one case in Maysar neighborhood in Aleppo province, north Syria. The human rights watchdog...
Ever since the start of Syria’s proxy war, people have travelled there to help the Syrians in their fight against the Assad regime; some for humanitarian reasons, some sponsored by rogue states, and others for ideological or religious purposes. They include people from all over the world....
Assad cousin Col. Jihad Hamed Makhlouf killed himself by explosives when rebels attacked his apartment in Adra al-Ummaliya, 25 km east Damascus, cyber activists circulated. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed yesterday that Islamist rebels...
Syrian authorities have freed for “humanitarian reasons” 366 detainees from Aleppo prison in the north of the country, which is under rebel siege, state news agency Sana reported on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a first group of 10 prisoners were freed on...
Iran has quit nuclear talks with world powers, accusing Washington on Friday of going against the spirit of a landmark agreement reached last month by expanding its sanctions blacklist. A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who represents...
More than 2 million Syrians have fled their country, according to the United Nations refugee agency. With nowhere to go and often with just the clothes on their backs, many end up in refugee camps that are both overcrowded and overwhelmed. Many organizations are offering supplies,...
Syria is hitting back at Saudi Arabia for supporting rebels who want to topple President Bashar Assad by promoting an English-language movie that depicts the founder of the monarchy as a bloodthirsty womanizer. "King of the Sands" opened to much fanfare under tight security...
European leaders should "hang their heads with shame" over their treatment of Syrian refugees fleeing the country's brutal conflict, rights group Amnesty International said on Friday. In a briefing entitled; "An international failure: The Syrian refugee crisis", the charity...
