Islam Army, key rebel group active east of Damascus, has waged a new missile attack on government-held neighborhoods of Syria's capital, activists said Tuesday. The Katyusha rockets have stormed Mezzeh 86 , a predominantly Alawite neighborhood. The shelling also reached al-Maliki district, few...

n">Amnesty International criticized on Monday what it said was a "dismal" global response to the plight of Syrian refugees and urged neighboring countries struggling to cope with the influx of refugees to lift "deeply troubling" measures designed to keep them out. The human...

Syrian Kurdish-led forces said they had captured a town at the Turkish border from Islamic State on Monday, driving it away from the frontier in an advance backed by U.S.-led air strikes that has thrust deep into the jihadists' Syria stronghold, Reuters said. The capture of Tel Abyad by the...

The Syrian opposition's interim government on Monday has dismissed the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brigadier General Abdul Karim al-Ahmed, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The interim government of Syrian National Coalition said Brigadier Ahmed Berri to conduct the affairs of the Staff pending...