BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and government forces have agreed to a truce in an opposition-held area near the central city of Homs, activists said Saturday. The cease-fire, which started on Friday, comes as troops loyal to President Bashar Assad are trying to seize as many...

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( Vice News - By Sara Elizabeth Williams ) As regime planes and helicopters ratchet up a massive offensive now in its second week, alliances in southern Syria’s rebel-held ground are beginning to shift under the weight of increasing foreign support and long-simmering ideological...

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By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Opposition activists have posted a video of what they say is chlorine gas floating through the streets of a Syrian village and they accuse President Bashar al-Assad of mounting a chemical weapons campaign. Activists and medical...

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed when Syrian rebels shelled a tent being used for election campaigning in the southern province of Deraa, a monitoring group said on Friday. At least 11 civilians, including a child, were among those killed in the attack which...

ISTANBUL (Anadolu Agency)- Syrian National Movement says scores of witnesses are ready to explain every detail of war crimes committed by the Assad regime. Syrian activists have witnesses and evidence to prove that the Syrian regime is guilty of systematic war crimes against...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ALEPPO (Zaman Alwasl)- Former leader of Aleppo military council launched Thursday a scathing   criticism against the feeble stand of opposition Interim government over the ongoing battles in Aleppo, sources told Zaman Alwasl....

At least 44 people, including seven children and eight women were killed in air and ground operations across Syria, mounted by President Bashar al-Assad's regime on Thursday, opposition activists say. Local Coordination Committees of Syria...

A Syrian court has issued summons for two Lebanese anti-Damascus figures, including Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a Lebanese judicial source said Thursday. "The Lebanese justice ministry received from the Syrian embassy in Lebanon, upon mediation by the Lebanese foreign ministry,...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes, prompting angry responses from the proposal's supporters who said the two countries...

Syrian opposition media and EA World View sources claim rebels have decimated a Syrian battalion in the latest fighting near Morek, on the main highway from Hama north to Idlib Province. The sources say at least 36 Syrian troops were killed — there...

(Reuters) - Syria has made no progress in relinquishing a last batch of chemical weapons it says is inaccessible due to fighting, making it increasingly likely it will miss a final deadline to destroy its toxic stockpile, Britain said on Thursday. The British deputy...

Russia and China block resolution to refer Syria to International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of war crimes. Russia and China have vetoed a UN resolution to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Caesar, the defector officer who was taking pictures of 11 thousand killed detainees in Bashar al-Asaad’s prisons and who smuggled a huge cache of evidence showing the "systematic killing" on January, may testify in the planned U.N. Security...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Alwasl)- A photo has been published, showing religious figures, both Muslims and Christians loyal to Syrian regime, in Khalid Bin al-Walid Mosque in Homs, has provoked many...

(Reuters) - Syrian troops have broken a year-long rebel siege on Aleppo's main prison after heavy fighting with al Qaeda fighters and other Islamist brigades, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. It said forces loyal to President Bashar...