An al-Qaeda breakaway group says it faces a war with rival Islamic factions who want to destroy it, describing Syria's al-Qaeda-linked branch as the "front of betrayal and treason". The statement by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Friday came a week after the leader...

Syrian warplanes pounded an area near the rebel-held town of Yabrud near the Lebanese border Friday, a day after at least 17 jihadists were killed in fighting there, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamist fighters were killed during an offensive by...

Syrian activists say at least 17 opposition fighters have been killed during clashes with government troops near the Lebanese border. The UK-based  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights  , which opposes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said on Friday that the opposition...

Rami Makhlouf, the well known businessman, who is considered the economical and financial cover for Assad family, come back strongly to lights as the first choice to re-build Syria and to observe the humanitarian corridors for aid and relief, after managing to control them, sources...