The job was too much for Kofi Annan. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former U.N. secretary general - hardly known as a quitter - threw in the towel in August 2012, declaring that serving as international mediator for Syria was impossible as long as global powers were hopelessly divided....

      The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) said in statement, posted online yesterday, that two fighters of its armed group, loyal to Assad,  were killed in a clash with the Free Syrian Army in Al Hosn district of Homs province. “They were...

    The Turkish armed forces attacked a convoy of al Qaeda-linked rebel vehicles in Syria in retaliation for cross-border fire on Tuesday, destroying three vehicles, Turkish media said on Wednesday. Turkish troops opened fire on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...

The Assad military continues to bombard Darayya, southwest of Damascus, amid ongoing fighting between regime forces and insurgents for control of the suburb — activists report at least 22 bombs, including “barrel bombs”, dropped today. There seems to be a massive push to...