A total of 189,000 children, aged below five, have been vaccinated against polio for the past week in the the central province of Homs, as part of a national government campaign in the war-torn country, state media reported. The national vaccination campaign, the fifth one since last...

Local sources reported that thousands of people from East Markada in “Alhjish” village and neighborhoods, were forced to leave their houses and run away to the nearby villages, to live in a camp they have established in hurry. Sources explained that around 5 thousand people...

For three years, residents of Syria's Mediterranean provinces have watched from their coastal sanctuary as civil war raging further inland tore the country apart, killing tens of thousands of people and devastating historic cities. But a three-week-old offensive by rebel...

Both sides in Syria's bloody civil war said Saturday that a rural village fell victim to a poison gas attack, an assault that reportedly injured scores of people amid an ongoing international effort to rid the country of chemical weapons. What exactly happened Friday in Kfar Zeita, a...

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Syrian rebels have advanced in Aleppo, killing scores of troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, Al Jazeera's reporter in the northern city said.  Opposition fighters stormed the Ramouseh district in an attempt to cut the government's supply route between the city's...

As he pushes a cart full of tomatoes and cucumbers in the market at Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, nothing marks out Mahmud as an experienced Hezbollah fighter. The stocky vegetable vendor in his fifties, who sports a red beard, fought Israel here in 2006, but that battle is now...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad political and media advisor Bouthaina Shaaban dismissed recent statements posted on her alleged official Facebook page saying that her country needed no one to help the regime fight rebels in the three-year conflict. “I don’t have any Facebook...

Activists say the death toll from infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria has jumped to 68. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says battles are still raging on Friday, for a second day, around Bukamal town in the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province...

A Syrian opposition news outlet claimed Friday the government troops attacked a Damascus suburb with poison gas and that residents were showing symptoms of shortness of breath. The Shaam News Network identified the Damascus suburb of Harasta as the site of the poison gas attack...

Insurgents are pursuing a notable victory — the capture of an Air Force intelligence headquarters near Aleppo. The opposition have surrounded the building last month after moving into Layramoun. Defense of the building has been further hindered by insurgent advances in other areas...

Fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria has killed more than 50 fighters, an opposition group said, while government shelling left at least four teenagers dead in a town in the country's west. The rebel infighting took place on Thursday...

Kuwait said three of its citizens have been kidnapped in Syria and it has asked Turkey for help in trying to secure their release. It was not clear why the Kuwaitis were in Syria or who abducted them. Some Gulf Arab citizens have entered Syria to join rebels fighting the forces of...

Sweida city, which was the cradle of the Syrian revolution against the French mandate led by Sultan al Atrash between1925–1927, still fights despotism and refuses to be part of regime’s current plan to broaden its bower base depending on minorities’ support....

Experts on board a cargo ship transformed into a multi-million dollar chemical weapons destroyer said on Thursday they were ready to start working on Syria's stock of toxic arms in the middle of the Mediterranean as early as May. Now they just have to hope the weather holds and...

The Syrian Revolutionaries Front celebrated the seizure of what rebels call “the third-largest weapons cache in Syria” on Wednesday, one day after gaining control of the western Ahmar Hills in Quneitra province. “The Ahmar Hills are at the center of the province, and next to the...

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Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate lost ground to its jihadist rivals around a town on the Iraqi border on Thursday in heavy fighting that left 24 people dead, Agence France-Presse reported a monitoring group as saying. Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a...

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