Main Alawite neighborhoods of central city of Homs condemned governor's decision allowing displaced people of Sunni neighborhoods to come back home, saying the 'laggard' governor is letting terrorists enter Homs again. Abu Jawad al-Faouri, local activist, quotes eyewitnesses as saying...

Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moualem said his country would request Russian troops to fight alongside its troops if the need arose but denied there were combat troops there now. "There is no joint fighting on the ground with Russian troops but if we felt such a need we would study it and...

Barrel bomb attacks by Syrian regime helicopters killed at least 22 civilians late Thursday in a rebel-held town near southern city of Daraa, a monitoring group said as Thursday's death toll rises to 99 across Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime helicopters "dropped...

A new massacre committed by Syrian regime air force in al-Sha'ar neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, leaving at least 20 people killed on Thursday what rises the death toll in the last 72 hours to 60, activists and monitoring groups said. Regime's devastating air campaign was extended...