President Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor Susan Rice on Friday said Washington was providing "lethal and non-lethal" support to select members of the Syrian opposition, offering more detail than usual on U.S. assistance.
Four people suspected of helping recruit jihadists to fight in Syria were arrested in the Paris region and the south of France on Monday morning, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has told Europe 1 radio.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to clinch re-election effortlessly next week, believes he has saved his regime from a brutal three-year insurgency, despite international isolation and calls for his departure.
Tehran, YJC. Hassan al-Nouri says to pursue a political solution to the Syrian crisis, he will maintain relations with Iran and Hezbollah if elected President.
Some 2,000 rebels and civilians were to begin leaving besieged opposition-held districts of Homs city in central Syria on Wednesday under a deal between fighters and the government.
Eleven suspected terrorists being held in Malaysia are being investigated over their alleged links to Syria, and not over the probe into missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, the Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.
The Syrian government and rebels struck a deal Friday for opposition fighters to withdraw from their besieged strongholds in the city of Homs, in another military success for the regime.
A young man who has just returned from fighting in Syria told a popular Saudi talk show on Monday he was deceived by some religious figures into travelling to the war-torn country.
The Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict has been the top regional conflict for a decade. This conflict has become a banner of the region’s hot zones, which are aflame, by proxy, from Iraq in the north to Yemen in the south, Bahrain in the east, and Lebanon in the west.
The United States has indications that a toxic industrial chemical, probably chlorine, was used in Syria this month, the State Department said on Monday, adding that an investigation has been launched.
Rivalry between jihadist groups fighting in Syria has sharply divided global militant ranks once loosely allied under Al-Qaeda, sparking infighting which experts say has hampered efforts to topple President Bashar al-Assad.