High-profile media companies including the  New York Times , the  Huffington Post  and Twitter lost control of their websites Tuesday after hackers supporting the Syrian government breached an Australian-based Internet company that manages many major site addresses....

      Following apparent chemical weapons attacks on August 21, 2013, in Eastern and Western Ghouta near Damascus, the United States, Britain, France, and other countries are assessing options for military intervention in Syria.   Human...

    Haquna (Our Right) organization declared arresting number of its activists during an argument with Militants of the Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham.   The activists protested against the continuous abuses by al-Qaeda- linked militia ISIS,...

Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned any possible military intervention in Syria Wednesday, warning of "graver conditions," should strikes be carried out, Iran's Fars state news agency reported. He likened threats of an attack to a return to "the Middle Ages."...

The Turkish lira fell further against the dollar on Wednesday, despite assurances by the central bank and amid tension over Syria. The lira fell to 2.06 to the dollar in initial trading, then rallied slightly to 2.0527, from 2.0382 at Tuesday's close. The Istanbul stock market fell by...

The border crossing between  Syria  and  Lebanon  was frantic on Tuesday, as it had been for many months. But, unusually, amid the hordes of people at passport control on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa crossing were queues of well-heeled Syrians – types not often on the...

Another chemical attack reported in Aleppo as UN inspectors examine the gas site in Damascus Another chemical weapons attack has been reported in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo expected to be phosphorus bomb, which took place in the Urim region of Aleppo. 9 students...

Military thinkers from Sun Tzu to Napoleon Bonaparte have long emphasized the element of surprise. So it might seem strange that the Obama administration is not just clearly telegraphing that it likely plans to launch limited strikes  against Syria, but also when it’s going to strike and...

French President Francois Hollande will meet with the head of Syria's main opposition group on Thursday, the presidency announced Tuesday. The talks with Ahmad al-Jarba will take place just over a week after an alleged deadly chemical attack took place in the suburbs of Damascus, prompting...

Tawfiq Dunia, a member of the Syrian National Coalition, who recently withdrew from it, has explained the reasons behind that decision on his face-book page. First, he explained that the aims of coalition expansion was to achieve balance,  where the number and proportion of...

A special program has been launched to enroll students from Syria at 25 Saudi universities as a humanitarian gesture. Official approval has been granted to Syrian students who cannot continue their university education due to the worsening situation in their country....

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would not be "so stupid" as to use chemical weapons close to Damascus, the leader of the country's largest Kurdish group said. Saleh Muslim, head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said he doubted the Syrian president would resort to...

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour noted on Tuesday that a war against Syria will have negative repercussions on the entire region, reported the National News Agency. He said: “Lebanon will not remain silent if Israel exploited a strike against Syria to attack Hezbollah in the South.”...

    Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem vowed on Tuesday that his country will defend itself in case of any Western military strikes against it.   “We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The...

North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition, a Japanese daily said Tuesday, as the US threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack. A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as Al En Ti Sar, left North Korea for Syria...

As winter getting closer, Syrians still perplexed about the possibility of securing diesel for winter, where there were promises to distribute 400 liters to each family at the official price of 60 Syrian pounds, but no confirmation of this news yet, beside the ambiguous mechanisms of...

  US   President Barack Obama   is weighing an attack against   Syria   that would be of limited scope and duration, newspapers reported Tuesday. The strike in retaliation for what the   United States   says is Syria's undeniable use...

  Dr. Bader Jamous, General Secretary of the national coalition defended the delay of the emergency meeting regarding the chemical attacks until mid September.   ''It's very hard to reach 114 members in the Coalition to Istanbul during the week, explaining that the...

 K hanaser, the vital town in northern Aleppo countryside and the biggest gathering for pro-Assad militias  had been liberated, activists reported.  The head of the National Defense forces ( NDF) in Aleppo city was killed on Sunday morning by clashes between the NDF...

The United States on Monday postponed a meeting with Russia scheduled for Wednesday in The Hague due to “ongoing consultations” over the use of chemical weapons in the Syria. “Given our ongoing consultations about the appropriate response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria on August 21,”...