The Syrian city of Homs, dubbed "the capital of the revolution" by rebels, has been a key flashpoint since the early days of the almost three-year-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. A major battleground ever since a popular uprising rapidly morphed into an armed insurgency,...

Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan have presented to the five permanent U.N. Security Council members a draft resolution demanding full access for aid workers across Syria, which was quickly dismissed by Russia as a "non-starter." Western diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity...

  Even as it began the evacuation of a group of 83 civilians from the Old City of Homs, the Assad regime was attacking the nearby district of al-Waer, home to many displaced Syrians, activists said. State news agency SANA says a first group of 83 civilians has been moved...

Liwa'a Al-Tawhid, key Islamic front unit, said Friday more than 40 fighters from Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been killed after blowing up the Justice palace, one of Assad's fortified strongholds in Aleppo. Footage has been circulated on the Internet by rebels...

  Jabhat al-Nusra has issued a long statement complaining about attacks on its facilities by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. The Islamist faction said ISIS has interfered with its financial resources in Deir Ez Zour Province in eastern Syria, saying the...

The high-security buffer zone across from Turkey's Reyhanli district on the Syrian side of the border crossing has become Syria’s lifeblood for aid. The high-security buffer zone across from Turkey's Reyhanlı district on the Syrian side of the border crossing has...

The United States has increased direct funding to rebel groups fighting in Damascus and southern Syria, ramping up pressure on president Bashar Al Assad after negotiations in Geneva ended in deadlock. Last week, as the Syrian regime   delegation in...

  Over the last two weeks, Obama administration officials have signaled - sometimes intentionally, sometimes not - that a worst-case scenario is emerging in Syria. Peace talks are at a virtual standstill. An emboldened President Bashar al-Assad has missed two...

Syria evacuated three busloads of civilians from a besieged area of Homs on Friday, the first stage of a planned three-day humanitarian ceasefire in the city which has suffered some of the worst devastation of Syria's three-year conflict. The buses carrying dozens of weary-looking...

Aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem expressed alarm on Friday at a spike in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property coinciding with renewed U.S.-backed peace negotiations. The statement by 25 aid organizations said the number of demolitions...

  Syrian jihadist groups claimed today that a British national has carried out a huge suicide truck bombing in Syria. The attack would be the first time that a Briton has died in a suicide attack in Syria, the Times said. Jihadists named the man as Abu...

 At least 16 detainees from Sweida province and Jaramana city have been tortured to death with other 28 still arrested in Bashar Al Assad’s prisons, a new document by human rights activists said. The main stronghold of Druze sect has witnessed several pro-democracy...

The United Nations welcomed reports that an agreement has been reached to allow the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Syrian city of Homs and for aid to be delivered, a UN spokesman said. The rebel-held Old Homs districts in the centre of the city have been under...

    A series of local truce deals in and around Damascus between the Syrian regime and rebel forces are being used for short-term political gain and are likely to be short-lived, opposition sources predict. The truces, struck in the key rebel-held areas of Yarmouk,...

The United Nations welcomed reports that an agreement has been reached to allow the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Syrian city of Homs and for aid to be delivered, a UN spokesman said. The rebel-held Old Homs districts in the centre of the city have been under...

The head of an international chemical weapons mission in Syria said on Thursday she does not believe the Syrian government is deliberately delaying the transfer of its chemical arsenal abroad. "No I don't think so," Sigrid Kaag told reporters when asked if the Syrian government may be...

Syrian rebels on Thursday seized control of most of Aleppo's central prison, freeing hundreds of detainees, an NGO said, prompting a denial from state media. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said members of the Islamic Front coalition, dominated by the Ahrar al-Sham...

Syrian rebels on Thursday seized control of most of Aleppo's central prison, freeing hundreds of detainees, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said to AFP.   "Ahrar al-Sham and Al-Nusra Front [brigades] have taken control of 80 percent of Aleppo central prison and freed...

    High-profile figures of Syria's two major opposition groups will meet in Egypt's Cairo Thursday to discuss broader representation of the Syrian opposition groups in the second round of talks of the Geneva II peace conference, a Syrian opposition leader said Tuesday....

Rebels announced a new military campaign in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Thursday, a few days after government forces stepped up air attacks in a bid to recapture territory and drive residents out of opposition-held areas. The largest Syrian rebel coalition, known as the...