An Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has been killed near Aleppo, where he was advising the Syrian army on their battle against ISIS fighters, the guards said in a statement Friday. General Hossein Hamedani was killed late Thursday, the statement said. Iran is the main regional ally of...

A car bomb exploded Thursday in a rebel-held town in the northern province of Aleppo, killing at least ten people and leaving dozens wounded, a monitor group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 10 civilians have lost their lives when a rigged car exploded in a marketplace in...

  Despite living in hiding and fearing for her life, Syrian journalist Kholoud Waleed persists in reporting on the suffering and atrocities inflicted on her fellow countrymen in the long-running civil war. The 31-year-old, who has been targeted by both government and militant forces, set...

Rebels claim that at least one Russian helicopter was downed in Hama province on Thursday where a major Syrian regime offensive is underway. Fighting between Syrian regime forces and rebel factions continued on Thursday as a government offensive on opposition-held Hama and Idlib continued for a...

A number of cruise missiles launched from a Russian ship and aimed at targets in Syria have crashed in Iran, two U.S. officials told CNN Thursday. Monitoring by U.S. military and intelligence assets has concluded that at least four missiles crashed as they flew over Iran. One official said...

Syrian rebels on Thursday shot down two helicopters, including one Russian, in the northern countryside of Hama province, a monitoring group and local sources said, as Russia continued air support for Basjar al-Assad forces fighting on the ground. The two helicopters was downed near the village...

Islamic State fighters have killed three Assyrian Christian captives who were among nearly 200 Christians abducted earlier this year in the northeastern province of al-Hasaka, Reuters said Thursday. The three men were killed late last month but the news emerged this week when a video showing...

Syrian regime forces and allied militia backed by Russian airstrikes launched an offensive against rebels in the Ghab Plain in western Syria Thursday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel fighting there said. Rebel groups led by the dominant Ahrar al-ShamIslamic...

Syrian troops and militia backed by Russian warplanes mounted what appeared to be their first major coordinated assault on Syrian insurgents on Wednesday and Moscow said its warships fired a barrage of missiles at them from the Caspian Sea, a sign of its new military reach. The...

Syrian rebel groups led by dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement on Wednesday have thwarted regime's major ground attack on the northern countryside of Hama province, destroying at least 25 army vehicles and tanks, activists and rebel commanders said. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia took part in...

Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has reached an agreement with rival group Nour Eddin al-Zinki in the western countryside of Aleppo, a day after a gun-fight left casualties from both warring groups, activists said Wednesday. Nusra and al-Zinki to release prisoners of each side and to...

U.S.-led coalition aircraft bombing Islamist militants in Syria were re-routed at least once in the last six days to avoid a close encounter with Russian planes, a Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday. The United States and its allies have been waging a year-long air campaign...

Russia's military build-up in Syria includes a "considerable and growing" naval presence, long-range rockets and a battalion of ground troops backed by Moscow's most modern tanks, the U.S. ambassador to NATO said on Wednesday. Speaking on the eve of a NATO defence ministers meeting to be...

An intense wave of Russian air strikes hit provinces of Aleppo, Hama and nearby areas in the neighboring province of Idlib on Wednesday, Reuters and activists said. Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, started carrying out air strikes in Syria last week saying...

At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad could be turned into victory - with Russia's help. Major General Qassem Soleimani's visit to Moscow was the first step...

Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has engaged Tuesday in gun clashes with the rival group Nour Eddin al-Zinki in the western countryside of Aleppo, casualties reported from both warring groups, according to activists.   Zaman Al Wasl reporter in the northern province of Aleppo said...

The Russian defense ministry said its planes had struck 12 ISIS targets in Syria on Tuesday, adding that the militants had begun to move their weapons and armored vehicles into residential areas to try to protect them. In a statement, the ministry said Russian planes had flown around 20...

 France's foreign minister said Tuesday his country was working on a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces from using barrel bombs against his population. The resolution has little chance of clearing the Security Council, where...

Russian jets hit Islamic State targets in the Syrian city of Palmyra and the northern province of Aleppo, Syrian state television and a monitoring group said on Tuesday, in some of the heaviest Russian attacks on the hardline Islamist group, Reuters reported. The strikes destroyed 20...

NATO on Tuesday rejected Moscow's explanation that its warplanes violated the air space of alliance member Turkey at the weekend by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria and building up its naval presence. With Russia extending its air strikes to include the...