Syrian troops backed by heavy air strikes have edged closer to a hospital in northwestern Syria where dozens of Syrian soldiers and loyalist fighters have been holed up for the past two weeks, the army said on Sunday. An army source told Reuters that its troops were now several...

(The Daily Star)- The Lebanese Army will not “slip” into engaging in any war inside the Syrian area of Qalamoun, where Hezbollah and the Syrian Army are currently fighting jihadis, Commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi said. According to a report by the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat newspaper’s Sunday...

Syrian government forces advanced Saturday towards the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughur, where around 250 army soldiers and their families are trapped in a hospital building, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops were now within two...

Turkey on Friday denied it had struck a secret new pact with Saudi Arabia to back Islamist rebels in Syria in a drive to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Reports have suggested that Riyadh and Ankara agreed a special pact to militarily and financially support...

(IANS/EFE) Nearly 25 percent of all violent deaths occur in countries that constitute only 4 percent of the world's total population, with countries such as Syria, Honduras and Venezuela suffering the worst rates, according to a UNDP report. The 2015 United Nations Development...

(AP) — Syrian rebels on Friday voiced deep reservations about a U.S. program to train moderate rebels that American and Jordanian officials say has kicked off in Jordan, dismissing it as a drop in the ocean that would not change realities on the ground. U.S. officials say the program...

International inspectors have found traces of sarin and VX nerve agent at a military research site in Syria that had not been declared to the global chemical weapons watchdog, diplomatic sources said on Friday. Samples taken by experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition and Chemical...

The Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah fighters, has made advances in mountainous areas along Syria's border with Lebanon, a Hezbollah official said on Friday. The push in the Qalamoun mountain range appeared to be preparation for a wider offensive in the border region previously announced by...

Syria's coastal province of Tartus has mourned 9 military pilots were killed in Aleppo and Damascus in the last few days, according to pro-government social media pages. Activists of the predominantly Alawite province said 4 pilots, including two top officers, were killed in Blay military...

Syrian rebels have reportedly cut the international highway running through the embattled Qalamoun region south to Damascus. “Rebels seized control over [a section] of the international highway in Qalamoun between Qaldoun and Maalula,” Al-Arabiya reported Friday morning. The Saudi-owned...

Top commander in Syrian air force has been killed with 13 officers in mysterious circumstances, pro-Assad media outlets said. Major General, Nadim Jawad Ghanem, Commander of Blay military airport, who buried in his hometown of Tartus on Friday, was killed with 13 others, news feeds said...

Commander of Failaq al-Rahman on Thursday has been wounded with 9 others in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated himself near the rebel groups' headquarters, source Zaman al-Wasl. 10 fighters, including Failaq al-Rahman's commander Abdulnaser...

(By Mamoon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Pro-Syrian regime people in Homs started moving their dead relatives’ remains from the martyrs’ graveyard to their home villages.  Sources mentioned that families refused to bury their killed sons in Fardous graveyard, the one...

The American military has started training "moderate" Syrian rebels in Jordan to prepare to fight the Islamic State group, US and Jordanian officials said Thursday, after months of delays. The training in basic military skills will eventually extend to sites in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar,...

Saudi Arabia wants to bring together the many branches of the war-torn country's armed and political opposition to discuss what to do after the regime's downfall, opposition sources said Thursday. The Sunni-ruled kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a main backer of forces fighting to topple Syria's...

Islamist rebels in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus have released three hostages, including mother and son, after 17 months of captivity, rebel group and Husband said. On Wednesday, the Islamic Union of Ajnad al-Sham active, in statement posted online, said the release of Helena...

At least 30 Kurdish militants on Wednesday have been killed when a suicide bomber affiliated to the Islamic State detonated his car in PYD bases in northern city of Hasakah, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. ISIS' car bomb stormed one of Kurdish Democratic Union's bases in al-Kallasa neighborhood...

 Hundreds of members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood have returned from exile, hoping to rebuild a movement which was crushed decades ago at home and is deemed a terrorist organization by leading Arab states. Membership of the Brotherhood remains punishable by death in Syria more than 30...

Army of Fatah in Qalamoun on Wednesday has killed more than 40 Hezbollah fighters, including two senior commanders, near the Lebanese border, rebel Twitter feeds said. The newly alliance led by Syria's al-Qaeda wing, the Nusra Front, has inflicted humiliating defeats on Bashar al-Assad...

 Syrian regime forces on Wednesday targeted vehicles of Syrian Arab Red Crescent during a humanitarian mission to deliver medical aid to their center in the rebel-held city of Douma north of Damascus. One female volunteer has been killed,...