December 2014

  Damascus Province: 3 mortar shells struck areas in the neighborhood of Masaken Barzeh with no information about casualties. Other shells landed on al- Abbaseyyin area, the Building14 in al- Sheikh Sa’ed in al- Mazzeh, al- Jamarek area…

(CNN) -- The fortunes of potential U.S. allies among Syrian rebel groups are ebbing fast as hardline Salafist groups and especially al Qaeda's affiliate go on the offensive. The past month has dealt further reverses to already-beleaguered…

  Al- Raqqa Province: 5 people killed while others injured due to aerial bombardment on areas near al- Der’eyyi Post, Iben al- Nafis Pharmacy and  Ali Daham School in the city of al- Raqqa. The death toll is expected to rise because…

Daraa Province: The warplanes carried out raids on areas in the town of Jazem leading to kill 2 children while others were injured.  They also carried out 2 raids on the town of Ebtaa amid heavy bombardment by the regime forces on the town.…

The humanitarian crisis in Syria and the Middle East and the growing number of African migrants making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean seeking asylum is only going to get worse in 2015, aid body Unicef said. Peter Power,…

AFP, Beirut Tuesday, 30 December 2014 Militants in Syria have threatened to execute Lebanese servicemen they hold captive unless Lebanon releases the ex-wife of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria group's leader and another…

Forced from their homes by civil war, millions of Syrians have been displaced, either within Syria or to neighboring countries. There is no sign of an end to the four-year-old conflict, but there is some good news from Turkey, where 1.6…

Agencies   AMMAN: The hard-line group ISIS has released what it said was an interview with a Jordanian pilot captured last week after his plane crashed during U.S.-led coalition bombing in eastern Syria. It was not possible to…

Staff Writer, Al Arabiya News Tuesday, 30 December 2014 Russia has invited U.N. envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura to attend the peace talks between Syria rivals in Moscow next month, de Mistura's spokeswoman said on Tuesday. “It's a…

An activist who survived imprisonment by Isis in Syria alongside James Foley has spoken of physical and psychological torture at the hands of the group. Louay Abdul-Jood, a Syrian activist, was held for six months before…