AFP-  Six children were among at least 15 civilians killed in overnight bomb attacks by government and rebel forces in the divided city of Aleppo, an activist group said Monday. "At least nine civilians, three of them children, were killed in barrel bombs (dropped...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The Islamic Front, key rebel group in Syria, said in statement posted online on Monday that main rebel factions in Aleppo province have merged under its banner. According to the statement, brigades of Ahrar al-Sham, Soqour al-Sham,...

AFP-  Bashar al-Assad was given a warm reception by the faithful on Monday when he joined in Eid al-Fitr prayers in Damascus, to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Assad took part in prayers at the Al-Kheir mosque, in Muhajarin, near his home in northwest Damascus....

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Many activists in Istanbul initiated a campaign called “Let's be correct” to prompt Syrians in the city to respect the particularity of the Turkish community, aiming to avoid problems have...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state-run media says a car bomb has exploded in the central city of Homs, killing at least seven people. State news agency SANA said the vehicle exploded Sunday in the Arman neighborhood, home to mostly minority Christians and Alawites, the sect of...

Translation by Dani Murad As clashes continue to rage in Eastern Ghouta between Islamic factions and regime's army, and in an attempt from the latter to storm into the town of Maliha, the town of “Zebdin” was caught in the midst of this aggressive attack, when Assad’s forces...

Syrian government troops Saturday recaptured the Shaar gas field in Homs province from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, a week after the jihadists seized it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Since this morning, there has been fighting around the...

BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town near the Turkish border Saturday, killing and wounding a number of people hours after Syrian rebels shot down a helicopter gunship over a slum in the northern city of Aleppo, activists said. The Aleppo Media Center said...

(Al Arabiya News)- Hezbollah Chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s nephew was killed in Syria during battles with rebel groups, Lebanese media reports said Saturday. In a statement issued late Friday, Hezbollah said Hamzah Yassine, whom it described as hailing from the southern Lebanese...

(Translation by Dani Murad) The Secretary-General of the Syrian National Coalition, Nasr al-Hariri, has announced the work program for the Secretariat of the Coalition, stressing that rebels’ demands must be implemented, demanding FSA factions to...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 28 soldiers of Syrian regime army and national defence militia were killed in Hama province when fighters of Free Syrian Army stormed their base, Hama media center said on Saturday. The moderate rebel group (FSA) has...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 30 members of West-backed National Coalition have European and American citizenship, according to Zaman Alwasl sources. Most of Coalition members have justified that by saying "we were obliged to have another...

Damascus (AFP) - Islamic State fighters have seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and beheading some of them, a monitoring group said Saturday. The takeover of Division 17 base came as the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said...

  The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria killed dozens of Syrian government soldiers in an attack on an army base, a Syrian activist group said on Friday. The group, the Syrian Observatory for Hum an Rights, which monitors the conflict from Britain through a network of contacts in...

(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abductions' news is the most prominent these days in Sweida province. The Western and Western North are the regions with highest incidence of abduction; most of them have financial blackmailing...

(Reuters) - Jordan's air force shot down an unidentified drone near the north-eastern border with Syria on Friday, a government spokesman said, the first such event announced by authorities since Syria's crisis began in 2011. Mohammad al-Momani told Reuters the "aerial target was...

  The Islamic State group has taken full control of Division 17, the last stronghold of Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the eastern province of Raqqa, sources and media activists reported on Thursday. Normal 0...

The UN has sent its first humanitarian aid convoy into rebel-held areas of Syria without government consent on Thursday, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon accused warring parties of denying assistance to millions as a tactic of war. "A convoy of nine trucks crossed into Syria today from...

(Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl)- While Assad’s regime is preoccupied in bombing civilians and fighting rebels to lay the foundations of its rule and setting things in his favor, and as its security services are arresting whoever has the...

BEIRUT: Lebanese airborne troops conducted thorough searches along the eastern mountain range bordering Syria Wednesday, as part of measures to curb infiltration of the porous border by gunmen and arms. The National News Agency (NNA) said the combing operations were carried out in...