Johannesburg, May 19 (ANI): Syrian president Bashar Assad has said that claims of the West that the Syrian government used weapons of mass destruction against its countrymen are nothing but a pretext for waging war against Syria.

Wellington, May 19 (ANI): In another cyber-attack Twitter and Financial Times (FT) website have reportedly been hacked.

London, May 18 (ANI): Russia has defended its arms sales to Syria, saying it is for purely defensive purposes.

Washington, May 18 (ANI): The New York Times has revealed that its website was hacked earlier this week, preventing access to a small number of users.

London, May 18 (ANI): The United Nation's refugee agency has said that more than 1.5 million people have fled the conflict in Syria.

Washington, May 17 (ANI): A new video has emerged on the Internet showing a Syrian rebel leader summarily executing a line of kneeling soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad regime with bullets.

London, May 16 (ANI): A resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and condemning the government's use of heavy weapons has been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Ankara, May 13 (ANI): Turkey's prime minister has vowed that his country won't be drawn into Syria's civil war, despite twin car bombings which the government believes were carried out by a group of Turks with close ties to pro-government groups in Syria.

Jerusalem, May 13 (ANI): At least 82,000 people have been killed and 12,500 others are missing after two years of civil war in Syria, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.

Manila, May 12 (Xinhua-ANI): The Philippine government welcomes the release of the four Filipino UN peacekeepers abducted on May 7 in Al Jamla, Syria, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs ( DFA) said in a statement on Sunday.

London, May 11 (ANI): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told US media he has evidence that Syria used chemical weapons against opposition forces.

London, May 10 (ANI): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would have no role in a political settlement to Syria's conflict, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.

Beijing, May 9 (Xinhua-ANI): The Lebanese Hezbollah's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel Thursday that his militia is ready to receive "game-changing weapons" from Syria.

London, May 9 (ANI): Syria's main armed opposition group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), is losing fighters and capabilities to Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist organisation with links to al-Qaida.

Sydney, May 8 (ANI): Internet traffic in and out of Syria suddenly stopped in the wee hours of Wednesday.

London, May 8 (ANI): Russia and the United States have pledged to convene an international conference aimed at ending the civil war in Syria.

London, May 8 (ANI): Satire website the Onion's Twitter feed has become the latest victim of hacking from the Syrian Electronic Army.

Washington, May 8 (ANI): President Barack Obama has said he has yet to receive clear, corroborated evidence to back up intelligence reports that chemical weapons were used at a small-scale by the Syrian regime.

London, May 7 (ANI): The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria has distanced itself from comments made by one of its members that there was evidence of the nerve gas sarin being used by rebels in the war-torn country.

London, May 7 (ANI): Israel sought to play down its attack on Syrian soldiers during an air strike on research facilities and weapons shipments that were bound for the Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Islamabad, May 7 (ANI): A new magazine set up by militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan has appealed to Muslims around the world to come up with a new technology to hack or manipulate drones.

Damascus, May 6 (Xinhua-ANI): A UN investigator has expressed her strong suspicions that the Syrian rebels had used nerve agent sarin in Syria's two-year deadly conflict, local media reported Monday, quoting a foreign media outlet.

Jerusalem, May 6 (ANI): United Nations human rights investigators have collected testimony indicating that rebel forces used nerve agent sarin.

Sydney, May 6 (ANI): Syrian Government has warned that Israeli raids that have hit three military sites outside Damascus was now 'more dangerous'.

Tehran, May 4 (ANI): India and Iran has expressed deep concern over the continuing and unabated violence in Syria and called upon all sides to abjure violence and resolve all issues peacefully through discussions taking into account the aspirations of people of Syria.