Syrian government forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held districts of Aleppo Wednesday, killing 13 people as they pressed an assault southeast of the northern city, a monitoring group said. Government troops also battled rebel forces near Krak des Chevaliers, a famed...

Syria’s opposition said peace talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Geneva took a step   forward on Wednesday with discussions on a transitional government after four days of deadlock. There was no immediate confirmation of this from the regime  delegation...

Ahmed Odeh was watching a YouTube video about the abysmal conditions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Syria's war-torn capital Damascus. A small girl in the video was crying and shouting, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry." After watching the video, "I had the idea to make a...

 The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is upgrading some of its BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to enhance their survivability during counter-insurgency operations. While numerous improvised protective measures have been seen on SAA armour over the past two years, a...

Outrage has been sparkled in the Druze stronghold of Sweida province, after arresting a militia commander by Assad’s military security, the source said. Nabil Ghabra, commander of the National Defence Army, pro-Assad militia, has been arrested in Qraya town, the birthplace...

Raed Fares, a leading activist behind the posters and videos of Syria’s protests, has been shot twice in the back and is being treated in a hospital in Idlib, according to EA. His condition is said to be “stabilized”. Fares is a driving force of the banners of Kafranbel,...

The Syrian army is edging its way towards southeastern Aleppo as it battles rebel fighters for control of the northern city, a monitor and a pro-government daily said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was a "limited advance" but the first by government troops in...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees including sexually abused children, survivors of torture and the elderly will be allowed to enter Britain, Nick Clegg has announced. The Deputy Prime Minister said that Britain has a "moral responsibility" to continue its "long and proud...

Not so long ago Noura al-Ameer was being beaten and subjected to electric shocks in a Syrian prison. Today, she sits across from the regime that put her there, hoping diplomacy can end her country's suffering. "It was as if I was seeing the faces of the killers, the bombers, the...

Two French school students who ran away to fight in Syria were back home Tuesday with some explaining to do to their bewildered parents and teachers and the police. The two boys, aged 15 and 16, flew to Turkey on January 6 with the apparent intention of crossing the border into Syria...

The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) said never rejected the proposal of the  Saudi preacher Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Moheisini  for reconciliation, The Victorious Party In the Land of Ash-Sham, jihadist group, said in a statement posted online....

  The UN failed to break a deadlock at Syrian peace talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with negotiations interrupted after President Bashar al-Assad's regime pushed for a statement condemning the United States. After announcing the start of a fourth day of talks with a morning...

A man lies dead; his severely emaciated body makes the rib cage protruding from his midsection look violent and sharp. A child sits in the dirt, the closed storefront behind him spray-painted with the words "I swear to God I am hungry." The lifeless body of a baby lies discolored and...

Syrian peace talks were due to resume in Geneva on Tuesday with the warring sides deadlocked over the explosive issue of transferring power from President Bashar al-Assad's regime. UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi admitted as the talks closed on Monday that the negotiations "haven't...

A suicide bomber from an al Qaeda-linked rebel group killed 13 soldiers in an attack on the Syrian defence minister's hometown, an opposition monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a Saudi militant who came to Syria to fight with the country's al...

The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as "a dialogue of the deaf." The chief U.N. mediator expressed frustration over inflammatory public remarks by the two sides as he...

As Syria's bitter divide plays out between regime and opposition negotiators in Geneva, journalists from both camps are also locking horns on the sidelines of UN-brokered peace talks. Whether in the tree-lined gardens of the UN's European headquarters or its corridors and packed...

In a statement on Monday, the Islamic State of Iraq and The levant (ISIL) dismissed the “Umma Initiative” for reconciliation, saying it was “fighting those who fight it, taking revenge from and curtailing the power of those who have wronged it without any hesitation.” The...

A senior commander in Ahrar al-Sham, Islamic Front unit, said Islamist rebels have accepted to sign peace treaty with the Islamic State of Iraq and The levant (ISIL) and Islamist rebels, who still waiting the ISIL response, Jihadist sources said. Khaled Abu Anas, a...

  Syrian peace talks in Geneva were deadlocked Monday over the explosive issue of transferring power from President Bashar al-Assad's regime, delegates from the warring sides said. But both parties said they were not planning to walk away from the talks, even though a...