Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, showing footage of an apparently unconscious man lying on a bed and being treated by medics. The alleged attack on the neighborhood of Jobar in the capital...

Mortar fire killed at least six people in a suburb of the Syrian capital Thursday, activists and state media said, amid reports that clashes in a coastal province killed a top foreign fighter who was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Syria's state news agency said four mortar rounds...

International powers who support the Syrian opposition have firmly rebuffed any idea of a presidential election organized by the Syrian government in the midst of a civil war, describing the plans as a "parody of democracy" that would kill peace talks. The Friends of Syria, an...

Pro-opposition news site All4Syria reported Wednesday on the emergence of a new Iraqi militia entitled the Assad Allah al-Ghalib Brigade fighting alongside regime forces in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. Rebel faction Failaq al-Rahman released a video Wednesday of a...

Syrian government forces are combatting rebels on the road connecting Damascus and the southeastern, Druze-majority city of Suweideh on Thursday, as rebel groups destroyed sections of the road with explosives planted in sewage drains. The clashes centered in the towns of Buraq...

Syrian government forces appeared to prepare for a major assault on the heavily contested town of al-Mleiha, 10 kilometers East of Damascus, on Thursday morning, with pro-Assad news site Damascus Al-Aan reporting that the Syrian army had shelled more than 200 targets in the...

Syria is charging in a letter to the United Nations that opposition groups are planning a toxic gas attack in a rebel-held area near Damascus so they can then blame it on government security forces. In a letter dated March 25 and circulated by the U.N. this week, Syria's...

  On February 22, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2139 demanded that all parties, “in particular the Syrian authorities” open corridors for humanitarian aid across conflict lines. More than a month later, little has changed. In several Damascus suburbs,...

Reports are circulating of fighting, the heaviest in weeks, in the Jobar suburb of Damascus. Rebels from Damascus suburbs with local ceasefires are said to have joined colleagues in the area. EA Worldview

Death toll in the Syrian conflict has exceeded 150,000, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , which has documented violence on the ground since peaceful protests first broke out on March 2011 before quickly evolving into a raging war. The activist group...

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Poverty, deprivation and siege have not prevented Palestinians in Yarmouk camp from celebrating the Land Day that comes on the 30th of March. The celebration started on Sunday morning in festive atmosphere, where the Palestinian revolutionary songs were chanting...

At least 54 people, including four children, have been killed in air and ground operations across Syria by President Bashar al-Assad's regime on Monday, opposition activists have claimed. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights...

Protests against the Syrian government has been on-going in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor since March 2011, as part of the wider Syrian revolution, but large-scale clashes and attack and retreat battles have been taking place between rebels and regime forces on the outskirts of the Deir...

Well-known personalities from the besieged neighborhoods of Homs met with Syria’s regime Reconciliation minister in al-Safir hotel yesterday in step to break 22-month of siege and starvation. The meeting with Minister Ali Haidar and Homs governor Talal al-Barazi comes in...

Opposition activists reported power outages in most neighborhoods in the Syrian capital of Damascus beginning Monday night and continuing into Tuesday. “Our electricity was cut from 11 last night until 10 this morning, and when the electricity is on it’s unreliable,” Hamza, a...

A convoy representing donations from the United Nations, World Food Program and Syrian Arab Red Crescent delivered 16 truckloads of food and medical aid to the town of Douma in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta Saturday. It was only the second time in almost two years that...

In the 661 st day of Syrian government encirclement of the 13 besieged neighborhoods of Old Homs, a photograph shows three rebel combatants eating mulberry leaves, as food provisions in the town remain scarce, nearly two months after the United Nations World Food Program was last able...

Turkey fired artillery into Syria to retaliate after a cross-border rocket from the war-torn country had slammed into a mosque, Turkish media said Monday amid heightened tensions. The rocket from Syria wounded an elderly Syrian refugee woman in Hatay province on...

United Nations Humanitarian coordinator for Syria Yacoub al-Hillo spoke Saturday to opposition activists in Douma, roughly 10 km northeast of Damascus, after entering the town along with a United Nations, World Food Program (WFP) and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) caravan carrying 16...