Syrian opposition media and EA World View sources claim rebels have decimated a Syrian battalion in the latest fighting near Morek, on the main highway from Hama north to Idlib Province. The sources say at least 36 Syrian troops were killed — there...

(Reuters) - Syria has made no progress in relinquishing a last batch of chemical weapons it says is inaccessible due to fighting, making it increasingly likely it will miss a final deadline to destroy its toxic stockpile, Britain said on Thursday. The British deputy...

Russia and China block resolution to refer Syria to International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of war crimes. Russia and China have vetoed a UN resolution to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Caesar, the defector officer who was taking pictures of 11 thousand killed detainees in Bashar al-Asaad’s prisons and who smuggled a huge cache of evidence showing the "systematic killing" on January, may testify in the planned U.N. Security...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Alwasl)- A photo has been published, showing religious figures, both Muslims and Christians loyal to Syrian regime, in Khalid Bin al-Walid Mosque in Homs, has provoked many...

(Reuters) - Syrian troops have broken a year-long rebel siege on Aleppo's main prison after heavy fighting with al Qaeda fighters and other Islamist brigades, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. It said forces loyal to President Bashar...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Atop the hill of Tel Ahmar just a few kilometers from Israeli forces on the Golan Heights, Syrian Islamist fighters hoist the al Qaeda flag and praise their mentor Osama bin Laden. One of the men, a leader of al Qaeda's Nusra...

Syrian regime army has launched a fierce assault on rebel fighters in a bid to break their year-long siege on Aleppo's central prison, a monitor, state media and activists reported Wednesday. The rebels and their allies from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front have been...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has discussed the situation in Syria with Jordan's King Abdullah II. The two leaders spoke Wednesday and the White House says their conversation centered on the impact Syria's civil war was having on Jordan and other...

A candidate standing against Bashar al-Assad in next month's Syria's presidential election says the country's conflict began because of the regime's poor economic management and a minority elite monopolising wealth. "Today there is a nationwide war and a foreign plot, but in the...

Dutch police have arrested a 21-year-old man who fought in Syria as he was allegedly about to commit an armed robbery "to finance jihad", the public prosecutor said on Wednesday. The man spent six months in Syria last year "taking part in jihad" fighting President Bashar...

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's government begged the world for help on Wednesday to rebuild a healthcare system it said had been destroyed by "terrorists", despite reports by U.N. officials that Syrian government forces were largely to blame for the damage. In...

Jihadists have launched a fresh bid to take over the Syria-Iraq border area and set up a so-called Islamic state they can control, rebels, activists and a monitoring group say. "Their name is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Their goal is to link together the two...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia dubbed as a "publicity stunt" a planned U.N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution to refer Syria's civil war to the International Criminal Court, warning that the move would be detrimental to attempts to broker...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Red Cross has begun a "major distribution" of emergency food rations on both sides of the front lines in the Syrian city of Aleppo, its first since October, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Reuters on Wednesday....

BEIRUT (AP)— The Syrian army inched closer to seizing a central prison in the contested northern city of Aleppo Wednesday, with intense artillery shelling and military aircraft dropping dozens of crude bombs in the area and killing at least 50 rebel fighters, Syrian state media and...

CANNES (AFP)- A Syrian woman whose horrifying footage of the siege of Homs was turned into a film by an exiled director was on Friday given a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, a few hours after the pair met for the first time. Documentary maker Wiam Simav Bedirxan,...

Russia would veto a draft United Nations Security Council calling for Syria to be hauled before the International Criminal Court, deputy foreign minister Gennady Gatilov said Tuesday. "The draft resolution that is currently submitted to the Security Council for us is...

Tartus has itself largely escaped the conflict in Syria, but posters of its sons killed fighting for the regime elsewhere in the country line the western city's main road. A wall in the central bus station is a tapestry of pictures of the dead, most of them young, posing in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Syria is starting to relinquish the remaining stockpile of materials from its chemical weapons arsenal after months of delay it blamed on security concerns, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. "It is starting to be moved as we speak," Pentagon spokesman Rear...