Main Alawite neighborhoods of central city of Homs condemned governor's decision allowing displaced people of Sunni neighborhoods to come back home, saying the 'laggard' governor is letting terrorists enter Homs again. Abu Jawad al-Faouri, local activist, quotes eyewitnesses as saying...

The Syrian refugee who was tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman, arrived in Madrid late last night, where he has been offered a job and accommodation. The refugee, Osama Abdul Mohsen, was a professional football coach in Syria's premier league team El Fotuwa SC before the war broke out. After...

Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moualem said his country would request Russian troops to fight alongside its troops if the need arose but denied there were combat troops there now. "There is no joint fighting on the ground with Russian troops but if we felt such a need we would study it and...

Barrel bomb attacks by Syrian regime helicopters killed at least 22 civilians late Thursday in a rebel-held town near southern city of Daraa, a monitoring group said as Thursday's death toll rises to 99 across Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime helicopters "dropped...