(Reuters) - About 30 Syrian government fighters were killed when rebels set off a bomb in a tunnel beneath a checkpoint in a northwestern province, activists said on Tuesday. Videos and images posted by opposition supporters online showed a massive plume of smoke and earth...

By Washington Post- The Obama administration has designated the office of the Syrian Opposition Coalition a “foreign mission” in this country, a category that gives it a symbolic boost in status but that falls well short of diplomatic recognition as a government. The...

  Reporting by Sham Mohamed; Translation by Dani Murad PARIS-Zaman Alwasl- The humanitarian tragedy in Syria continues to deteriorate at a rapid pace with more than 7 million refugees (the majority internally displaced) fleeing to neighboring countries to escape death...

Fighting between rival jihadist groups in eastern Syria killed 63 people on Monday, despite a call from Al-Qaeda's chief for a ceasefire, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The clashes between Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and...