Syria’s rebels seized control Saturday on strategic highway that links Damascus with eastern Syria and Iraqi borders, as they killed dozens of Bashar al-Assad’s forces, rebel group said in statement posted online. Baghdad International highway the vital route to Bashar...

Syria's Aleppo has been hit by a power cut for seven consecutive days, a monitoring group said Friday, the day after some 50 civilians were killed in air raids there. Regime-controlled areas of the city and countryside “have been deprived of electricity for seven days, after the...

  At least 88 rebel and regime forces have been killed in two days of clashes for control of strategic sites in Syria's southern Daraa province, an monitoring group said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in Britain said 45...

Syria maintains an ability to deploy chemical weapons, a senior Western diplomat has said, citing intelligence from Britain, France and the United States. "We have some intelligence showing, that they have not declared everything", a senior diplomat told the Reuters...