(Reuters) - The latest effort to unify the fractured Syrian military opposition has done little to create a cohesive vehicle for foreign military aid that could fight insurgents in Syria , after at least two major rebel groups dropped out of the initiative. The Revolutionary...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is creating a vigorous vetting process to weed out undesirables among the Syrian rebels it will train to fight Islamic State, but some of the new recruits will be familiar faces requiring far more limited screening....

Reporting by Abu Abdullah Al Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- As the seige's severity against the Eastern Ghouta increased, especially after closing al-Wafidin's barrier, combined with products' monopoly by was' traders, prices...

(AFP)- Syria's civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. "We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March 2011," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...