A mortar shell fired into Turkey from Syria exploded in an uninhabited area in the southern province of Hatay's Reyhanlı district late on Wednesday. No casualties were reported. Local news agencies reported on Wednesday evening that the mortar shell landed in an uninhabited area...

A video released on YouTube shows the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front preparing to execute two Saudi fighters in Syria. According to the unidentified executioner heard speaking in the video, the men were accused of “betraying” the jihadists by joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...

Syria has sent 49 percent of the raw materials used for its poison gas and nerve agent programme abroad for destruction, according to the chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the removal of the country's stockpiles. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said...

  Turkey has said it is ready to take any measures against threats to its national security from war-torn Syria, its foreign minister warned. "The Turkish republic is a powerful state and never hesitates to take any measures to protect its national security if need...

Haitham al-Maleh, the Syrian opposition figure revealed that the Syrian National Coalition has been contacted intensively by many countries and parties supporting the Syrian regime, requesting the opposition to control themselves after the remarkable achievement of rebels in the...

The Mulok checkpoint in Homs has long been the key to liberate besieged Homs because it separates Homs from its suburbs. This checkpoint, which is located north of Homs and about 5 km long, is one of regime’s biggest checkpoints which brought death and destruction to the...

  Activists northeast Syria reported that Bashar al-Assad’s forces have adopted new killing strategy by planting landmines near the main highway in Deir al-Zor. Six passengers killed and seven wounded days ago due to landmine explosion hit their bus on the...

Thousands of people from al-Hosn village run away to Lebanon from imminent death they faced by heavy shelling and systematic killing from Syrian regime and its Shabiha. They tried to enter Lebanon through Khalid Valley days ago, however, many of them they were killed, as bodies of...

Arab leaders have called for a political solution to the conflict in Syria, although the Syrian opposition had asked for "sophisticated" arms to tip the balance of power. The regional body, in its final statement issued on Wednesday after a two-day summit in Kuwait, also condemned...

Syrian activists say rebels and government forces are clashing over another coastal town in Latakia province, as opposition fighters slowly press their advance in the area. Wednesday's fighting for the town of Qastal Maaf comes after rebels in recent days seized the Kassab...

A U.N. report on how Syria's neediest civilians are often not accessible to humanitarian relief workers makes it clear that the government of President Bashar al-Assad shoulders most of the blame, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. A month after the 15-member U.N. Security Council...

Tensions are running high on the Turkey-Syria border following the shooting down of a Syrian warplane by Turkish forces at the weekend, the Turkish army said Tuesday. The military reported a dozen incidents involving its aircraft and Syrian anti-aircraft defences on Monday alone....

  Anne Barnard of The New York Times, who is on a trip to Homs, reports that scores of those evacuated from the Old City in early February are still effectively detained: Barnard says that, while the University is “open and bustling”, other efforts at showing life-is-normal are...

Former member of Syrian ruling family's inner circle gives first direct account of how shabiha paramilitaries were ordered to kill and torture opponents of the regime A former Assad regime insider has given the first direct account of how Syria's ruling family created the feared...

Head of the Syrian opposition coalition Ahmed Jarba has called for providing the opposition fighters in Syria with anti-aircraft missiles, asserting that no political breakthrough would be possible unless there is a "military progress" on the ground. Jarba's call came during...

“The lout and lowlife‪,‬ Suleiman al-Assad‪,‬ the son of Hilal‪,‬ the head of Military Housing in Latakia‪,‬ was arrested on Monday from the Meridian of Latakia after receiving a beating from the good boys ‪….‬ they said he cried and screamed‪. Among his entourage, was an official’s...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz on Tuesday called on the Arab League to grant the Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s main opposition group, a seat at the summit. The Syrian National Coalition will not fill the Syrian regime’s vacant seat at the summit because it has...

Aleppo is central to President Bashar al-Assad's goal of rescuing a viable state from the ruins of Syria; hence the grim message from his forces to its residents, that one equals five. "We told them every shell (they fire) equals five barrel bombs," said Amar, a local policeman in...

New satellite imagery, videos and eyewitness accounts reveal the indiscriminate nature of the government’s large-scale air campaign on opposition-held parts of Aleppo since November 2013. The attacks on populated areas in Aleppo and its countryside continue despite a UN Security...

Syrian troops backed by war planes battled on Monday to dislodge Islamist rebels from a border crossing and northern town in the coastal province of Latakia, heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority. Fighters from the Islamic Front and al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front...