The Syrians did not choose Hafez Al-Assad to be their president. Based on the facts, Al-Assad led a military coup on 16 November 1970 against his comrades in the...

Former Israeli Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin warned on Sunday that Israel is facing the “most dangerous May since 1967,” Israeli news website Ynet News has reported. His reference was...

Hundreds of bodies have been found in at least two mass graves in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the former stronghold of Daesh, according to local news agencies. Contrasting...

The right of return is no longer linked exclusively to the Palestinian issue, but has also become linked for several years to the Iraqi issue, given the large-scale migration...

Iraqi security forces are more likely to rely on air forces to strike Daesh in Syria than to carry out ground operations in the country, an official from the...

Air strikes pounded a insurgent-held area near Damascus on Sunday, footage broadcast by Syrian state TV stations showed, as the Syrian government stepped up efforts to wipe out the...

Israel released details on Tuesday about what it described as an Iranian “air force” deployed in neighbouring Syria, including civilian planes suspected of transferring arms, a signal that these...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Saturday urged Russia to help solve the Syria crisis as he set off for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of...

Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies have lost “hundreds” of fighters in total since the start of a campaign in northwest Syria three months ago, President Tayyip Erdogan said...

A team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited a site in Douma, Syria on Saturday to collect samples as it tries to...

Syrian rebels began withdrawing from an enclave northeast of Damascus on Saturday and will go to northern Syria, state TV and a rebel official said, in a surrender agreement...

The sight of yet another chemical attack on civilians in Douma on Saturday 7 April caused the kind of international outrage that the world now expects and has come...

Rights group condemns recent expulsion of hundreds of Syrian refugees from residences in Lebanon

Amelia Smith interviews Hammam Yousef, a Syrian activist who co-founded the Syrian Non-Violence Movement during the 2011 uprising.

Russia is obstructing the access of international chemical weapons inspectors to the site of a suspected poison gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le...

When Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from Syria and leaving it to others to take care of its affairs, the common belief was that by others...

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said today that Moscow did not know how the situation in Syria would evolve in terms of the country maintaining its territorial integrity,...

Dozens of conflicting columns about the chemical weapons attack on Douma have been churned out by a whole range of individuals, from untrained bloggers and Assad apologists to highly...

The Pentagon said on Thursday that while there were no signs the Syrian government was preparing to launch a chemical weapons attack, President Bashar al-Assad still retained the ability to...

The Syrian government stepped up its efforts on Thursday to retake the opposition’s last besieged enclaves, as rebels prepared to withdraw from one and a newspaper reported an ultimatum...

Iraq today carried out air strikes on Daesh positions in Syria a week after Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said his country would defend itself from militant threats across the border....

The US has resettled just 44 Syrian refugees into the country since October, down from approximately 6,000 in the same time frame last year, according to CNN. Figures are...

Shortly after the missile attack on Syria, US Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump bragged in his usual pompous way that it was “mission accomplished”. In Britain, there was no such display...

As Iraqi regular and irregular forces gathered on the edges of Mosul in spring 2016, flanked by Kurds and assisted quietly by Special Forces from several Western countries, Donald...

In his speech before the recent Arab Summit held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the head of the Egyptian regime warned of the challenges — described as systematic and unprecedented...

Some 500 Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s south-eastern town of Shebaa left their homes today heading to Syria’s Beit Jinn, which was recaptured by the regime forces from the opposition...

Syrian opposition leader, Michel Kilo has warned that replacing US troops in Syria with Arab forces could lead to a long-term Arab-Iranian war on Syrian soil. Speaking in an...

The US-led strikes on Syria may be over, at least for now, but the war that produced them – as well as the wider international confrontations that fueled it...

Three Belgian companies will appear before court in May for allegedly exporting chemicals to Syria, an official source revealed yesterday. The Belgian chemical exports were reported to have contained...

Child marriage among Syrian refugees has more than doubled in the last four years according to new data released by Jordan’s court system. War, poverty and economic instability have...

Saudi Arabia is holding talks with the US over sending troops into Syria as part of a wider international coalition, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has said. “We...

An American citizen languishing in a US detention facility without charge in Iraq since September last year is going to be transferred to another country, the Guardian reported yesterday....