A campaign to train Syrian opposition forces to fight hardline Islamic State militants, which was due to start this month, has been delayed by Washington, Turkey's foreign minister said on Friday. U.S. officials have said they plan to train about 5,000 Syrian fighters annually for three...

Al Fateh Army, an alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels including al Qaeda's Nusra Front, has overrun Syrian regime defense posts in Idlib in an offensive to take the city from the army and allied militia, activists said late Friday. According to activists and the...

The  United Nations   Human Rights Council  has adopted a new resolution calling on Syria  to allow a Commission of Inquiry to continue its work documenting violations and abuses of Human Rights committed by all parties in the country's conflict. The resolution...

The Syrian military, backed by fighters from Hezbollah, used heavy artillery to close in on the city of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese Hezbollah-run al-Manar television reported. It showed footage of fighters in a mountainous area using heavy weapons around...