General leadership of rebels command in Eastern Ghotua in statement issued today said more than 800 militant of the forces loyal to Basher al-Assad have been killed in Ghouta recent battles.   The statement said that rebels had captured 44 armored vehicles  and...

Sweden's security police, SAPO, says at least 75 people have left the country to fight in Syria since mid-2012, more than doubling an estimate from earlier this year. The figures presented Monday underscore a trend seen across Europe of fighters joining al-Qaida-linked...

The number of Syrian refugees in the Middle East will nearly double over the next year to exceed four million, the United Nations said Monday as it launched its appeal for funds. Another 9.3 million people are expected to be in need of aid inside the war-ravaged nation by the end of...

  Gen. Jayez Mousa, Commander of Dumeir Military airbase, most powerful airport in Syria, has threatened to wipe off the city of   Dumeir, 46 km (30 miles) east Damascus unless the rebels give up fighting on the enclaves of the desert city and give back the...

Assad airstrikes have used barrel bombs for the second day on rebel-held areas of Syria's second city of Aleppo, activists said. At least 125 people killed and injured scores of others on bloody Sunday, Al Jazeera's reporter in the northern city reported.  Residents on...

It is a 15-minute drive from the five-star hotel that houses U.N. aid staff in Damascus to rebel-held suburbs where freezing children are starving to death. Yet it is months since convoys from the United Nations and other agencies have delivered food or medical care to many such areas...

  Radical Islamic group, the State of Iraq and the Levant freed the leader of Hama province military council after days of abduction in Sarakeb in Idlib province, local sources said. Brigadier Ahmed Berri has been freed after a timeout was given to the ISIL...

A Syrian toddler died Sunday when a fire ripped through the family tent in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a security official told AFP.   "Mahmud al-Arfan, who was 18 months old, was burned alive when the tent where his family lived caught fire," the official...

The first United Nations aid flight from Iraq to Syria took off on Sunday after being delayed for several days due to bad weather, an AFP journalist said. The plane departed the Arbil airport in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region around 3:30 pm (1230 GMT), and was expected to arrive in...

At least 78 people were killed and 200 others wounded in regime air raids on rebel districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, the Syrian Revolution Commission said. The Aleppo Media Centre (AMC), an activist network on the ground, reported several air attacks on...

Assad warplanes struck Dumeir city, east Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 26 people, including 2 women and 11 children, in a series of strikes with explosive barrels hit Dumeir, revolution local coordination said.    The strikes hit north neighborhood of the...

The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant launched 3 suicide bombings against forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the city of Deir Zour east Syria, ISIL said in statement issued yesterday. Al-Qaeda affiliated said that more than 1000 jihadists had involved in the battles...

 Opponents of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have been at an impossible disadvantage since the start of the Syrian conflict because the United States and Britain refused to help them, an influential Saudi Arabian prince said on Saturday. The United States and Britain suspended...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday that the moderate opposition to the Syrian regime was in "serious difficulty" and that long-delayed peace talks aimed at ending the crisis were in trouble. "The moderate opposition that we support is in serious difficulty," Fabius said...

A Danish and a Norwegian frigate are anchored in the Cypriot port of Limassol awaiting orders to sail for Syria and help collect part of the regime's deadly chemical arsenal. When the call comes, they will escort two cargo ships -- one from each country -- to Syria's Latakia, where...

    A rebel commander has frozen to death due to the biting cold brought by a snowstorm that has swept Syria this week, a monitoring group said on Saturday.        The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that "the body of...

Jamal Ma’rouf, commander of Syria Revolutionaries Front agreed to end up disputes with the Islamic Front after mediation reconciliation committee was formed by Islamist commanders. Ma’arouf who based in northern Idlib countryside has demanded the immediate release of all...

Syrian rebel commanders from the Islamic Front which seized control of bases belonging to Western-backed rebels last week are due to hold talks with U.S. officials in Turkey  in coming days, rebel and opposition sources said on Saturday. The expected contacts between...

    Rebels Military council secretary and Ababeel brigade commander Capt. Ammar al-Wawi has been freed after 5 days of abduction near Turkish border by unknown Armed group, his brother said on his Facebook page. Capt. Al-Wawi and his 3 accompaniers...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to sanction those responsible for Syrian chemical weapons attacks documented in a newly released report. The UN report, issued Thursday, concluded that such banned arms were used at least five times before Damascus agreed to...