Only four or five U.S.-trained Syrian rebels are still fighting in Syria, a top U.S. general told Congress on Wednesday, a stark admission of setbacks to a fledgling military program that critics have already pronounced a failure. The U.S. military began training in May for up...

At least 8 people were wounded when a car bomb went off in mainly Alawites neighborhood in central city of Homs on Wednesday, State-run news agency said on Wednesday. SANA said "terrorists" detonated a Kia Rio car rigged with explosive near the square of al-Zahra, a key pro-regime...

At least 38 people, including 14 children, were killed on Tuesday when Syrian insurgents shelled three government-held neighborhoods in western Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "More than 150 people were wounded. This is one of the highest death tolls caused by...

Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian media he would only quit power if the Syrian people wanted him to and not under pressure from the West, a transcript of the interview published Wednesday showed. "As for the president, he comes to power with the...