Syrian rebels on Thursday took two checkpoints in Bloudan resort, the next-door village of Zabadani, a move came to ease the 50-day brutal offensive on the mountainous city to capture it from rebels. Fighters of dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and the al-Qaeda branch Nusra Front have taken...

Typhoid has broken out among residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of further disease outbreaks unless aid reached the camp because of the appalling conditions there. Eleven cases of typhoid were confirmed by the U.N....

The hardline Islamic State group, in statement dated on Wednesday, said it had killed a senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front last Monday in southern city of Daraa. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by ISIS fighters who broke...

Southern Front fighters have thwarted on Wednesday an attack launched by regime forces and allied Shiite militias on border town with Jordan, activists said. The key unit of the moderate Free Syrian Army repelled a major attack carried out by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad on al-Mousaima...