Islamist rebels and Syrian army troops on Thursday were engaged in heavy fighting in Syria's northwestern Latakia province in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral home, the army and rebels said. An army source told state news agency SANA fighter jets hit...

The head of the Syrian opposition National Coalition called on the United States Thursday to help set up safe havens inside Syria in areas under rebel control. Meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department, coalition president Khaled Khoja thanked the...

Nour ed-Din al-Zinki Islamist group, active in Aleppo, has exempted its general leader Tawfeeq Shihab al-Din, the Shura council said in statement Thursday. The rebel group said Shehab el-Din has special health conditions makes him unable to keep his post. The Shura council has appointed Ali...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people on Thursday have been killed in Syrian air strikes on Mare' town in the north of Aleppo, activists said.  Activists said two families were killed in a vacuum missile launched by Syrian warplanes on the town of Mare'.  Bashar...