Clashes in Ras al-Ain between Kurdish militias, who broadly support an autonomous Kurdish region, and Islamist fighters of the Nusra Front broke out on Tuesday after Nusra fighters attacked a Kurdish patrol and captured a gunman, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

  Syria's top rebel commander is likely to visit the United States next week, U.S.-based Syrian opposition representatives said on Thursday, and he is expected to make a plea for speedy U.S. arms shipments.   General Salim Idriss, who leads the rebel Supreme...

  Saudi Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, received at the Royal Court at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah today the President of Syrian National Coalition Ahmed Aowainan Al-Jarba and the accompanying delegation, according to the Saudi Press Agency....

Syria's devastating civil war will force a generation of children to grow up illiterate and filled with hate, a U.N. envoy warned Thursday as fighting raged on around the country, including an airstrike in the north that killed at least five and wounded dozens of men, women and children....