Establishing a no-fly zone to protect Syrian rebels would require hundreds of U.S. aircraft at a cost as much as $1 billion per month and no assurance that it would change the momentum in the 2-year-old civil war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday in a cautionary assessment...

  Syrian National Coalition met Saudi Defense Minister, and the Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the Crown Prince Slaman bin Abdul Aziz in Saudi Arabia where the main stream opposition had discussed the latest developments in the Syrian conflict and the proper ways to achieve...

A senior U.S. military intelligence official warned this weekend that the Syrian conflict could last “many, many months to multiple years,” and said the situation there would likely worsen whether or not the Syrian leader, President Bashar Assad, fell. “My concern is that it could go on for...

  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...

Assad troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 20 civilians, activist groups said . The mortar shells struck the town of Ariha, which is held mostly by opposition fighters, a few hours ahead of iftar, the meal that...

  No place for Shabiha corpses in Tartus graveyards, even if they were killed defending the Assad regime as their number has increased sharply in recent says as a result of violent fights between the FSA and pro-Assad militias . Some fanatics in the coastal city, Tartus, 350...

 Heavy artillery shelling on the city of Homs in Syria had caused a complete destruction of Khalid Ibn Al- Walid shrine, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. Khalid Ibn Al- Walid mosque that hold the shrine is located in an area controlled by the armed...

 Palestinian Activists have appealed all Palestinian parties and organizations concerned with the issue of Palestinian refugees like the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Palestinian Authority, for an immediate intervention to protect the Palestinian people inside al-Yarmouk...

  If radical Islamist rebels fighting in Syria are left “unchecked,” they could gain sway over the many disparate factions opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a top Pentagon intelligence official told Reuters on Saturday. “Left unchecked, I’m very concerned that the most radical...

  Cairo will “re-examine” diplomatic ties with Syria that were severed last month under ousted president Mohammad Mursi, Egypt’s foreign minister, Nabeel Fahmi, said on Saturday. “Everything will be re-examined,” Fahmi said of the decision to sever ties with Syria. “It doesn’t mean they...

Syrian state television claims that a pro-government group has hacked into two social messaging networks and seized records of local users. Such a hack could expose Syrian rebels and other activists who depend on the networks to publicize army crackdowns on their hometowns and...

  The civil war in  Syria  is widening a rift between top Shi'ite Muslim clergy in Iraq and  Iran who have taken opposing stands on whether or not to send followers into combat on President Bashar al-Assad's side. Competition for leadership of the Shi'ite community...

  Head of the National Coalition of Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, Ahmad Jarba , will visit Egypt on Monday to discuss recently tightened entry regulations for Syrians traveling to the country. Under the new regulations, Syrians wanting to enter Egypt need to get a security...

  Assad regime forces have committed 3 massacres on Sunday, killing 38 people and tens wounded.  The f irst massacre happened in the northwestern province of Idlib, in Ariha town, on Sunday killing 13 people, a monitoring group said.   "Thirteen people were...

  The strategy escalates the disagreement between the leaders of Shabiha “pro-regime militia” "Terror Balance” is the most suitable description for the new strategy in fighting the Free Syrian Army (FSA) adopt against the Regime forces and Hozbullah militia, according to our resource...

  Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 13 members of a family in the Sunni Muslim village of Baida on Sunday, in what activists said was the second massacre there, according to Reuters. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four women and six children...

Kurdish rebels freed Abu Musa, the local commander of al-Qaeda-linked group in Tel Abyad near Syria's northern border, Reuters reported.   Abu Musa, the local commander of a Syrian rebel group affiliated to al-Qaeda, was freed on Sunday after being held by Kurdish forces during a...