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Homs: Sharia court to sue al-Sarout over fighting with ISIS

The Sharia Court in Homs province gave prominent rebel commander Abdul Baset al-Sarout a week's notice to surrender himself to one of Islamic courts, otherwise will be sentenced in absentia over fighting with the Islamic State.   The notice stated, “following review of the lawsuit no...

Aleppo death toll mounts; rescue workers killed

Attacks by government forces and rebels killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in the last 24 hours in Aleppo, a city seeing some of the worst of a renewed escalation in the Syrian war, a monitoring group said. Intensified fighting has all but destroyed a partial ceasefire that...

Syrian opposition group urges unity in peace talks

A Syrian opposition group tolerated by President Bashar Assad's regime said Tuesday it had asked the UN to merge all opposition factions into one delegation at the next round of peace talks. The comments came from Syria's former deputy premier Qadri Jamil, who was sacked by Assad in 2013 and...