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A senior Israeli official revealed on Saturday that Syria has attempted two weeks ago to launch a cyber attack against Haifa 's water system, in retaliation to the alleged Israeli attack in Damascus a month ago.

Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul on May 24, 2013.

Intense clashes rocked the central Syrian town of Qusayr on Saturday, a watchdog reported, as regime forces backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah pressed an assault they launched almost nearly a week ago.

Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday.

Once denied by its leaders, the Shia militant group's involvement in Syria is now a badge of honour for families burying their dead Hezbollah members carry the coffin of their comrade Fadi Mohammed al-Jazzar during his funeral in southern Beirut.

AP10ThingsToSee - In this image from amateur video obtained by a group called Ugarit News, a rebel runs from an explosion, Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Qusair, Syria.

BEIRUT/DUBAI: Iran denied Friday it had forces in Syria supporting President Bashar Assad's army, one day after foreign backers of his rebel foes demanded Tehran withdraw its fighters from Syrian territory.

Nusra's leader, who uses the nom de guerre Abu Mohamed al Jawlani, formally announced the group's allegiance to al Qaida in an audio recording last month, shortly after Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaida's affiliate in Iraq, announced that Nusra and his group had joined to become the Islamic State of Iraq and ... (more)

Syria said it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence.

UNITED NATIONS - Syria said it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence.

The last of the Arellano Felix brothers who founded an infamous Mexican drug cartel has pleaded guilty in San Diego to helping ship hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States.

Vladimir Putin could well play a decisive role at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, where Syria is the most difficult problem faced by world leaders Moscow hopes that the 2013 G8 summit will contribute to tackling the Syrian standoff.

A poster on the home in Basra, Iraq, of Dhia Mutashar Gatie al-Issawi, an Iraqi who was fighting on behalf of the Syrian government before he was killed in Damascus.

Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." Craft breweries from around the country ... (more)

A former scientist for the Syrian chemical weapons program said Bashar Assad 's regime has enough of the nerve agent sarin to "eradicate the whole of Damascus, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo," Al-Jazeera reported Friday.

The main opposition body is holding a second day of talks in Istanbul to discuss the US-Russia initiative [Reuters] Russia says the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference proposed by Russia and the US, and criticised what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts.

There is a scene in Ang Lee's Civil War film Ride with the Devil , based on Ozark novelist's Daniel Woodrell's book , where a pack of rebel soldiers are asked why they are fighting jayhawkers along the Missouri-Kansas border instead of battling Yankees with the Army of Northern Virginia.

Mairead Maguire, Nobel peace laureate and Spokesperson for Mussalaha International, has issued a report and appeal to the international community to support a process of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government and reject outside intervention and war.

With all major players in the Middle East involved in one way or another in the Syrian conflict, the balance of power in the region will depend on the outcome.

Over the past few months, the security situation in the Syrian capital Damascus has been deteriorating.