(Reuters) - Two car bombs set off by Islamic State insurgents killed at least 31 people in northern  Syria  including a senior rival fighter from al Qaeda's Nusra Front, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday. Islamic State, which has captured wide areas...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -  United Nations  officials warned on Wednesday of a potential "slaughter of innocents" unless aid and assistance reached a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where thousands of civilians are trapped up in a vicious battle....

 At least 20 Syrian regime troopers have been killed in the western countryside of Hama when an explosives-rigged vehicle belongs to Ahrar al-Sham movement struck their checkpoint late on Tuesday, the key rebel group said in statement. Activists said fighters of Ahrar al-Sham...

 Rebels of Syria's southern front are likely to form a new powerful alliance similar to Fatah Army in Idlib city, in order to maintain gains they made recently in Daraa province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Islamist rebels, who seized the historic town of Bosra two weeks...