A military victory in Aleppo would provide the Syrian army a springboard from which to liberate other areas of the country from "terrorists," President Bashar Assad said in an interview with a Russian media outlet. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda released Thursday, Assad said...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army's capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be "a very important springboard" to pushing "terrorists" back to Turkey. Rescue workers said that Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 people, mostly FSA fighters, were killed after a car bomb exploded on Thursday near a checkpoint close to the Bab al-Salama crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in northern Aleppo province, Reuters and activists said. They said the blast took place near a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian army's defector Colonel Imad al-Karrad, the commander of Homs al-Waleed Brigade, was assassinated by two gunmen riding motorbike in the village of Tal-Shihab in southern Daraa province, sources said Thursday.  Al-Karrad was born in the Old City of Daraa, known...