Sunni residents in the heartland of  Bashar al-Assad 's Alawite sect say they are being repeatedly threatened and forced to flee their homes, amid fears that the likely fall of the nearby city of Homs will lead to widespread sectarian cleansing in parts of  Syria , the Guardian said....

Establishing a no-fly zone to protect Syrian rebels would require hundreds of U.S. aircraft at a cost as much as $1 billion per month and no assurance that it would change the momentum in the 2-year-old civil war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday in a cautionary assessment...

  Syrian National Coalition met Saudi Defense Minister, and the Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the Crown Prince Slaman bin Abdul Aziz in Saudi Arabia where the main stream opposition had discussed the latest developments in the Syrian conflict and the proper ways to achieve...

A senior U.S. military intelligence official warned this weekend that the Syrian conflict could last “many, many months to multiple years,” and said the situation there would likely worsen whether or not the Syrian leader, President Bashar Assad, fell. “My concern is that it could go...