Islam Army fighters on Saturday have launched a major attack on an army base northeast Damascus, the clashes are still underway, activists say. Rebels seek to capture Idarat al-Morakabat in Harasta city, a move may cut the international road links between Damascus and Homs. Jaysh...

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet on Monday to discuss the Iranian nuclear program and peace efforts in Syria, Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the meeting would take place...

A Syrian rebel group said on Saturday a ceasefire was over between insurgents and the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in a town near the Lebanese border and two villages in the northwest. Ahmed Qara Ali, spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham insurgent group, said rebel groups had...

  At least 1200 of Syrian inmates at a main prison in the city of Hama rioted on Friday in a protest against jail conditions and harsh sentences, a monitor and rights activists said on Friday. The roit came to an end, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources, after...