05/04/2015

Having fled the civil war in Syria, Nazmi Ali (40) died on Saturday at the marble factory in Bursa he began working at only twenty days earlier. Settling in the northwestern province of Bursa after having fled his country’s…

Agence France Presse   DAMASCUS: A key activist in Syria's "tolerated" opposition said Saturday he cannot attend peace talks in Moscow next week because Damascus refuses to lift his travel ban. "Neither I nor my movement will…

Head of the union of Arab tribes Sheikh Jassem al-Askar revealed that he is carrying out a series of contacts with a number of tribe leaders, who wield influence in Syria, to ensure the release of the Lebanese truck drivers who have been…

WASHINGTON — For months, U.S. military officials had been vetting the first unit of Syrian fighters slated to join a new force to be trained by the United States and allied nations. But when violence flared up in the unit's home area, the…

The Takfiri ISIL terrorist group has executed at least 30 civilians in an attack on a village in northwestern Syria, a monitoring group says. Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said on…

The Islamic State has recently released a new photo set showing its forces engaging Syrian regime troops in the central province of Hama. The jihadist group previously had an administrative division for the Syrian province, but after…

BEIRUT -- Syrian rebels and fighters from the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have captured the only functioning border crossing with Jordan and three nearby military posts, prompting intense government bombing raids of the area, activists…

BEIRUT — Civilians trapped in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria's capital fled to safer areas Saturday amid intense shelling and clashes between Palestinian armed factions and Islamic militants who took over most of the camp, Syrian…

Suspected Nusra Front militants were holding around 10 Lebanese truck drivers hostage at a major border crossing with Jordan Friday, two days after rebel fighters seized control of it from the Syrian government. “The incident occurred in…

Fifty Red Crescent volunteer workers have been killed during the four-year conflict in Syria, the most recent in the northwestern city of Idlib, an official says. The death toll includes 42 Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) volunteers and…