Atl east 36 civilians on Wednesday have been Killed in first-time Russian air strikes on rebel-held towns of the northern countryside of Homs city, activists and a monitoring group said. Activists reported death of 17 people, including children and women, in Talbiseh town, 11 people,...

A Syrian army defector and prominent rebel commander was killed by two assailants in rebel-held town in northern countryside of Homs, activists said on Tuesday. Col. Ahmed Kheshfah (dubbed: Abu Mulhem) was killed in Talbiseh town by two armed men claimed to be affiliated to the radical Islamic...

At least 30 people were killed and scores wounded in air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition on Sunday which destroyed an Islamic State training camp in eastern Syria, Reuters said on Tuesday. Rami Abdelrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said he...

n">The United States and Russia agree on "some fundamental principles" for Syria, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday, adding that he plans to meet again with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday. "There was agreement that Syria should be a unified...