Hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence and turmoil at home are being turned back by Jordan and other neighboring countries, Amnesty International said today in a new report that calls for urgent international support to increase humanitarian aid and resettlement to...

International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on  Syria  in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and Western officials said. Failure of the main Syrian National Coalition to...

  Syrian intelligence agents have arrested at least 230 men out of a group of civilians who were evacuated this week from a Damascus suburb besieged by President Bashar al-Assad's forces under a rare deal with rebels, activists said on Thursday, according to Reuters. The deal had...

As cannons thundered and mortar shells exploded nearby, the young Syrian woman in a slinky dark dress and stylish bob performed a song by pop star Adele, taking refuge behind a microphone from the civil war raging outside. Performing with a guitarist at a cafe in the heart of the historic...

Intent on supplying his government with arms, oil and food, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned to Russian  banks  to access world markets , and the lenders could open more doors to him, despite a risk of isolation from the U.S. banking system. U.S. sanctions...

  Syrian troops pressed an advance Thursday on the strategic area of Sfeira, the site of several arms factories near Aleppo, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Fierce clashes are raging between the rebels and regime troops on the eastern side of...

  One Syrian security official called it the "Starvation Until Submission Campaign", blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of  Syria . Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from...

  Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia on Thursday, an Obama administration official confirmed to CNN. An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was widely reported in the Israeli press, but an attack has not been confirmed by...

Aleppo Shariah Authority threatened Assad-held areas to live without water if the electricity outage will continue in rebel-held areas. Shariah Authority in Aleppo reached a new deal with Assad regime ' Water-for-electricity'  to get back the  electricity...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has stormed the bureau of the Saudi satellite channel, AL Aan, in Aleppo city, taking over all of the equipment and weapons in the office, and claiming that the channel worked for the CIA, according to the British-based Syrian Human...

Rebel source said dozens of Regime Army Soldiers have been killed  by al-Qaeda affiliate fighters yesterday  after ambush targeted their military convoy in al-Sfiera city near Aleppo.  The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant have planted the main road of the city...

Syria has destroyed or rendered inoperable all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament program, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

Actor George Clooney has reportedly set his eyes on the Middle East, and it isn’t for his next film. The mystery woman Clooney was spotted having dinner with last week at Berners Tavern in London has been revealed as Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin. Alamuddin, sporting a...

Foreign jihadists - including Britons - are flooding into Syria to join al-Qaeda from safe houses in Turkey Hundreds of al-Qaeda recruits are being kept in safe houses in southern Turkey, before being smuggled over the border to wage “jihad” in Syria, The Daily Telegraph...

   From your drawing I can guess if you are with or against Bashar al-Assad. That's what happened recently with Ammar, 10 year-old in his school in Damascus. The teacher asked the pupils to draw the national flag of Syria, the boy was very smart to guess...

Tunisian security forces arrested on Tuesday five people suspected of plotting a suicide bombing that shook a tourist resort and a foiled attack on the tomb of independence leader Habib Bourguiba. “The interior ministry’s specialized security units have managed in a short time...

  After 3 days of continuous clashes and killing more than 25 civilians in al-Waer, neighborhood of Homs, a truce to take place between rebels and Assad army. Activists reported to Zaman Alwasl, the truce will be a sign of victory because the Army troops whose asked for...

  While the human and financial means were limited, civilian institutions have nevertheless emerged in a few months in the zones conquered by the insurrection movement in Northern Syria. This experience of reconstructing an administrative system through the bottom-up...

      The Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah is poised to launch a much-anticipated offensive to the north of Damascus in a counterinsurgency campaign that is likely to prompt hand-wringing in Washington and more Saudi frustration with Western inaction in...

  Salih Muslim , co-chairman of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said a solution in Syria without President Bashar al-Assad is not easy. “A solution without Assad means the death of 2 million Alawites," he said.  Muslim, who gave an exclusive...