I've spent much of the last week in Antakya, an ancient city, known to Byzantine Christians as Antioch, which now serves as a bivouac for Syrian rebel fighters and a jumping-off point for journalists and humanitarian actors working in Syria, which lies 20...

Fighting factions in the city of Manbij, north eastern Syria agreed to affiliate the mills and bakeries of the city to their control, local sources told Eqtsad, Business newspaper . The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sahm, Al-Qaeda-linked group, has insisted on...

    Local sources from the border city of Azaz said The Islamic State of Iraq an al-Sham', al-Qaeda affiliate group had prevented  its rival The North Storm from of dragging its casualties corpses from the battle-field near Ma'rin village, according to...

  Until a few weeks ago, Saudi Arabia was riding high. Its regional policies, based on countering revolutionary fervour and containing Iran, appeared to be bearing fruit. Egypt’s army ousted the Islamist president, to plaudits and generous funding from Riyadh; the Syrian...

Ikea, known for its affordable flatpack furniture, is moving into new territory: refugee housing. The Swedish retailer has teamed up with the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) to develop a   flatpack shelter   that can be quickly assembled on site. Recently 50...

U.S. forces have arrested Libyan al-Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi on Saturday, following a military raid in the streets of Tripoli. Libi was allegedly involved in the 1988 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which left more than 200 people dead. He was on the FBI’s most...

Members of the team from the UN and the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) "have left for a site where they are beginning verification and destruction." A team of disarmament inspectors began the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons and...

 The United States and its partners are planning a series of rapid steps to dismantle  Syria ’s chemical weapons program, a strategy that is intended to guard against backsliding by President Bashar al-Assad  and limit the time that international experts need to work in the...

  The fighting groups in the neighboring suburbs of Homs province agreed on ceasefire after crossed clashes between the Christian towns, and rebel battalions in Al-Hoson citadel.  A statement issued yesterday assured rebels adherent to the peace initiatives by the...

Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Fayssal Mekdad, said Tuesday that his government aimed to negotiate an end to the country’s civil war by talking with a broad range of Syrians, from religious and community leaders to peaceful opposition groups, dismissing the main Western-backed exile...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German magazine he would not negotiate with rebels until they laid down their arms, and said he was still considering whether to run for office again next year. In an extensive interview with Der Spiegel, Assad said he did not believe it was...

Sixteen-year-old Mohammad al Zeibaa lost his entire family in the sarin gas attack east of Damascus six weeks ago, surviving the world's deadliest chemical weapons strike in a quarter century only because he was out working a hospital night shift. Mohammad's father, who rushed to the...

  Syrian people who had seen the coldest winter in 20 years last year, they will the same season, according to weather forecasts, But amid the hysterical prices for gasoline, diesel and transportation. Syrian regime raised on Friday the price of gasoline and...

  A group of Syrian refugees who are occupying a part of the french port of Calais and demanding entry into Britain,are claiming they were being mistreated in France.   The Frence perfect has told Al Jazeera the UK will consider visa requests from a...

A mother and her twin girls have been stabbed by knifes until death by the Assad-backed militia, Shabiha, in Qabo area, when a family of four were heading Lebanon two days ago, their bodies were found in the military hospital of Homs, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported...

Syria has given international experts additional details about its chemical weapons program that go beyond a September 21 declaration of its poison gas arsenal, the United Nations said on Friday. The team consists of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of...

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told Turkey it will pay a heavy price for backing rebels fighting to oust him, accusing it of harboring “terrorists” along its border who would soon turn against their hosts. In an interview with Turkey’s Halk TV due to be broadcast...

Al-Qaida militants battled fighters linked to the Western-backed opposition along with Kurdish gunmen in Syrian towns along the Turkish border on Friday, in clashes that killed at least 19 people, activists said. The violence is part of an outburst of infighting among the myriad rebel groups...

   A lot of Syrians still keep in mind the tragic story of 5-year-old girl who was raped by many men Aleppo in 2009; the incident had a tsunami amid State-run media that time where the top news was Bashar al-Assad visit to the girl with his wife Asma, in step to focus on the...

Cambridge International Arts is providing the opportunity for artists and others to draw or paint for Syria – raising money for  Oxfam’s Syria Campaign .  Secret Art Sale for Syria  invites you to contribute a piece of original art in any medium on an A5 piece of paper....