Kurds trying to assert their autonomy along the Turkish border with Syria have found themselves pitted against Islamists trying to cement their control of rebel zones over the past week, provoking clashes in the already volatile region .   Clashes between...

Syrian rebels seized a strategic village on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, activists said, just a day after opposition fighters sustained some of their heaviest losses in months in battles to the south near Damascus. Government troops killed at least 75 rebels in and...

Egypt said on Monday it would cancel visa fees for Syrians, the latest effort to ease diplomatic tensions between the two Arab states after the army ousted President Mohamed Morsi this month. Morsi, a member of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, had cut off diplomatic relations...

  The Violation Documentation Centre (VDC) reported targeting the many  villages in Edlib province like Albara, Almaghara, Kafernobul, Basamis and Ihsim, in Jabal Azzawiyah. The VDC confirmed targeting the shops and vehicles that sell and transport fuel to citizens, where the...