Britain intends to resume the delivery of non-lethal aid to rebels in Syria after it was suspended in December following advances by Islamist groups, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced. The £1 million ($1.7 million, 1.2 million euros) worth of communications...

  Syria’s government and rebels have reached a deal under which opposition fighters holed up in besieged parts of Homs city will withdraw during a ceasefire, an NGO said on Friday.   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a truce was already in place in the Old...

Prominent media activist Hussein al-Abbas has been killed by Bashar al-Assad's forces on Wednesday, Dumeir Local Coordination reported without elaborating where or how he lost his life. Al-Abbas was considered one of most active citizen-journalists...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Car bombs struck two small villages in the central Syrian province of Hama on Friday, killing 18 people, including 11 children, state-run television said, the latest in relentless daily violence that is ravaging Syria. The TV said the rigged vehicles...