BEIRUT: Pictures of rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar Assad laughing and shaking hands after a local cease-fire have sparked outrage on both sides,...
BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Thursday welcomed reports that an agreement had been reached to allow the evacuation of civilians from the...
MOSCOW/BEIRUT: Russia said its ally Syria would soon ship more chemical weapons abroad for destruction after being accused of dragging its feet, while...
QAMISHLI, Syria: In the northeast corner of Syria, a pocket of stability is emerging amid the country’s raging civil war. Here the talk is of building,...
BEIRUT: The United Nations World Food Program has pressed the Syrian government to increase access to besieged residents in Damascus and Aleppo, its chief...
BEIRUT: An al Qaeda affiliate based in Iraq and Syria has vowed to crush opposition groups it has been confronting in the worst outbreak of infighting among...
BEIRUT: Syria has started moving chemical weapons materials out of the country in the most crucial phase of an internationally backed disarmament programme...
BEIRUT: Syrian Kurds are demanding their own delegation separate from both the government and opposition at next month's peace talks in Switzerland aimed...
BEIRUT: The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) said on Tuesday his group would shun a planned peace conference in Switzerland in January and would...
BEIRUT: Islamist rebels led by al Qaeda-linked fighters seized Syria's largest oil field on Saturday, cutting off President Bashar al-Assad's access...
BEIRUT/IRBIL: With a string of military gains across northeastern Syria, a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn...
BEIRUT: Syria's army has sealed the few remaining smuggling routes into the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus, activists and aid workers said on Wednesday,...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels blew up an army checkpoint outside Damascus on Saturday and more than 30 combatants from both sides died in the blast and ensuing...
BEIRUT: Thousands of Syrian rebels have broken with the Western-backed coalition and called for a new Islamist front, undermining international efforts to...
BEIRUT: Opposition fighters across Syria are preparing to launch attacks that exploit anticipated U.S.-led military strikes, but there are no plans to...
BEIRUT: U.N. experts arrived in the Netherlands with evidence gathered in their investigation of a poison gas attack in Syria, as the White House said...
BEIRUT: People in Damascus stocked up on supplies on Wednesday and some left homes close to potential targets as U.S. officials described plans for...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: U.N. chemical weapons experts interviewed and took blood samples on Monday from victims of last week's apparent poison gas attack in a...
BEIRUT: President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a "big event of grave concern" but stressed on Friday he was in no...
BEIRUT: The men, women and children lying undisturbed in their beds had looked so peaceful they might have been just sleeping, Abu Nidal thought, as he and...
TUNIS: The red Tunisian flags they wave are the same, but the divide between opposition and pro-government protesters in the capital's main square is much...
BEIRUT: Syrian Kurdish forces freed a local leader linked to Al-Qaeda as part of an agreed ceasefire to end fierce fighting with Islamist rebels in the...
BEIRUT: Clashes between Islamist rebel forces and Kurdish militias spread to a second Syrian province on Saturday, activists said, as factional tensions rose...
BEIRU: Syrian rebels advanced on the northern town of Khan al-Assal on Saturday, activists said, and appeared close to seizing one of the last towns in...