November 2014

Damascus Province: Areas in the capital witnessed a gradual return of the water yesterday night after stopping lasted for 5 days. Violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces supported by NDF and Hezbollah guerrillas…

Al- Raqqa Province: The number of people killed in a massacre committed by the regime warplanes has risen to 95, 52 names had been documented , including 3 women and for children, where the warplanes carried out 10 raids on the…

The door should not be shut on dialogue with Islamic State insurgents, even though it is "almost impossible", Pope Francis says. Pope Francis said while it was "almost impossible" to have a dialogue with Islamic State insurgents, the…

DAMASCUS: Islamic State (IS) militants stoned to death two young men in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on charges of having "unlawful" sexual intercourse with other males, a monitoring group has reported.  The first man,…

Syrian regime air strikes on Islamic State group stronghold Raqa killed at least 95 people, while a delegation from President Bashar al-Assad's government held talks with key ally Russia Wednesday. The bombing on Tuesday was the…

Agence France Presse BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch Wednesday executed a man it accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad, in a summary killing mirroring those by ISIS, activists said Wednesday. Nusra Front militants shot dead…

About 150 Syrian civil war refugees have begun a hunger strike in front of Greece’s Parliament, urging the government to grant them temporary working and residence rights. The hunger strike started Monday, after protesters began…

The U.N. Security Council will move to allow cross-border deliveries of relief supplies to Syria for another year, the president of the council said Tuesday, as new figures showed more Syrians were in need of aid. The Council in July…

Syria has a long history of coups – or “inqilabat” - which have defined and shaped its current policy and therefore raises the question of whether Syria is the state of “coups” rather than the state of “revolutions”? Over the decades,…

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged two young American men from Minnesota, one of whom is in the Middle East fighting, with supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant. Somali Americans Abdi Nur, 20, and Abdullahi…