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Peace envoy Brahimi in Lebanon for Syria talks

Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday on the latest leg of his second regional tour aimed at ...

Ancient souk burns as fighting rages in Syria`s aleppo

Hundreds of shops were burning in the ancient covered market in Aleppo on Saturday as fighting between rebels and ...

UN, Arab League leaders discuss Syria deadlock

The UN and Arab League leaders on Friday discussed deadlocked efforts to end the Syria war and unrest sweeping the ...

Foreign ministry repatriates 331 workers from Syria, Jordan

Foreign Ministry has taken home a total of 331 migrant workers from Syria and Jordan who all of them arrived in ...

Helicopter crashes in damascus suburb-Syrian TV

A helicopter crashed in the town of Douma east of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, Syrian state television ...

Putin urges West rethink on Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Western and Arab governments on Thursday to review their policy on war-torn ...

12 people killed in Damascus funeral procession blast

Twelve people were killed and another 48 injured Tuesday when a car bomb ripped through a funeral procession for two ...

Syria top officials to attend NAM summit in Iran

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will attend the August 30-31 Non-Aligned summit ...

US and Britain warn Syria against chemical weapon threat

British Prime Minster David Cameron and US President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned they would be forced to consider ...

Pro-opposition Syrian journalist killed by army

A journalist from the cultural section of the government daily Tishrin was shot dead Wednesday at his home in Damascus ...

Russia,China warn West on Syria after Obama threats

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the West not to take unilateral action on Syria, saying that Russia ...

Russia denies supplying Syria with chemical weapons

Russia has never supplied Syria with chemical weapons, a senior Russian official in charge of chemical weapons safety ...

Syrian rebels getting lots of Western arms

Russia on Monday cited what it called increasing evidence that Syrian rebels were obtaining large amounts of ...

Bloody start to eid in Syria

The Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday got off to a bloody start in Syria, with at least 84 people dying across the country, ...

Malaysia temporarily closes embassy in Syria

The Malaysian government has decided to temporarily shut down its embassy in Syria amid escalating conflict in the ...