Syrian rebels have reportedly cut the international highway running through the embattled Qalamoun region south to Damascus. “Rebels seized control over [a section] of the international highway in Qalamoun between Qaldoun and Maalula,” Al-Arabiya reported Friday morning. The...

 (Al  Jazeera) -  A number of long metal arms swing over the city skyline in Beirut. In one open-air construction yard after another, Syrian labourers build sleek 25- and 30-floor towers, working without safety regulations, health insurance or union protection. According...

Top commander in Syrian air force has been killed with 13 officers in mysterious circumstances, pro-Assad media outlets said. Major General, Nadim Jawad Ghanem, Commander of Blay military airport, who buried in his hometown of Tartus on Friday, was killed with 13 others, news feeds said...

Commander of Failaq al-Rahman on Thursday has been wounded with 9 others in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated himself near the rebel groups' headquarters, source Zaman al-Wasl. 10 fighters, including Failaq al-Rahman's commander Abdulnaser...