Civil war in  Syria  has cut the wheat harvest to its worst level in nearly three decades and the government's share of the crop is being further eroded as it struggles to procure grain from rebel-held  farming  areas. Estimates collated by Reuters from more...

   More than 100,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday as he called for a peace conference to stop the violence on both sides. "We have to bring this to an end," Ban said in remarks before meeting with U.S....

A car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of Jaramana near the capital of Damascus, killing seven people and wounding 62, Syrian state TV reported. Jaramana, about 5 kilometers southeast of the Syrian capital, has a mostly Christian and Druze population known for backing the regime...

Reporters Without Borders called for the immediate and unconditional release of Polish photojournalist Marcin Suder, who was kidnapped by a dozen masked gunmen at around 11 a.m. yesterday in Saraqeb, in the northwestern province of Idlib. A freelancer who works for the  Corbis...

Local Emir of Jabhat al-Nusra, an Iraqi, was killed by clashes with regime forces, activists in the town of al-Sekhna, east Reef Homs, reported to the London-based Human Rights observatory. The Regime forces have been able to retake the town after clashes begun with al-Nusra...

Multiple aid agencies are raising money to help Syrian refugees. Here's a roundup of how to donate to the main appeals There are nearly 2 million  refugees  as a result of the conflict in  Syria , described as the  largest humanitarian crisis since the 1994 Rwanda...

Tunisian opposition member Mohamed Brahmi was shot dead in the capital Tunis on Thursday, a political source and local radio said. Brahmi was a member of the nationalist and secular Popular Party. Around six months ago the assassination of another secular politician, Chokri Belaid, led...

In the first two weeks of Ramadan, 1,262 Syrians were killed. The news didn’t make headlines and people were not agitated. This makes us wonder if what’s happening in Cairo killed the Syrian revolution or if the latter is fading into the background like what happened with Iraq after explosions...

Fleeing the civil war in their home country, Syria’s female refugees are struggling with domestic violence and being exploited and harassed for sex by aid workers and strangers alike. Jamie Dettmer reports from Lebanon. They have escaped one war only to find themselves as casualties and...

The awful conflict in  Syria  grinds on, with more than 100,000 dead and no end in sight. The calls to "do something" - anything - become louder: arm the rebels, enforce a no-fly zone, send in the Marines. Before the  United States  acts, Americans should reflect on the...

    Egyptian authorities should stop arbitrarily detaining Syrians and threatening to summarily deport them. The authorities should release the Syrian detainees unless they are promptly charged with a valid offense, and not deport Syrians with visas or asylum seekers without...

National Forces Rally in Sweida province has issued a statement condemning the attempt of assassinating the well-known national figure, Abu Moeen Jamal Hunaidi, by an armed group.    The statement referred the crime responsibility to the Regime security forces as Mr....

 Assad's intelligence had banned broadcasting of the famous Syrian soap operas criticizing the Assad regime in the public coffee shops of Lattakia, the regime stronghold, activist reported to Zaman Alwasl. 'Al-Weladah Min al-Khaserh' the name of the TV-drama series has...

  Kurds from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria have agreed to convene a pan-Kurdish congress to tackle historical divisions and position themselves to take full advantage of regional upheaval, according to Reuters. Often described as the world's largest ethnic group without a state of their...

    The wife of acclaimed Syrian artist Youssef Abdelke, whose works are displayed in museums around the world, appealed for his release on Saturday, after his arrest by regime security forces.   He had been arrested at a security checkpoint in the western port city of...

A senior United Nations team tasked with investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war began a mission to Damascus Wednesday, trying to hammer out with Syrian officials the terms for their investigation. It is the first such trip by international experts, and the...

Shiite movement said resorting to use of mass graves to evade backlash from victims’ families amid growing criticism of its role in bolstering Assad Hezbollah has buried hundreds of its fighters in mass graves in Syria to avoid a backlash from the victims’ families and maintain high...

Qatar's new emir will keep helping Syrian rebels until President Bashar al-Assad's rule ends, Syria's opposition envoy to Doha said on Wednesday, seeking to dampen speculation the rich Gulf state had scaled back its role in supporting the revolt. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has not made...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not going to lose power unless there is foreign intervention amounting to a full-scale war, according to a leading Middle-East politician. Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said with a united army in control of Damascus and the major Syrian...

Rachid Wahbi came to Syria from a Spanish slum, rushing toward death. And he didn’t plan to die alone. Facing a camera hours before the end, the bearded, 33-year-old cabdriver wore a black headdress and a black flak vest and held an AK-47 rifle. He spoke in hesitant classical...