Syria's paramilitary National Defense Forces have killed 23 displaced people in northern countryside of Hama on Tuesday, Revolution Local Coordinations said. The victims who fled war in the next-door province of Homs were killed in Om al-Khazir village. The Coordinations said they were heading...

 At least 45 people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus in Syrian regime air strikes, activists and monitoring groups said on Wednesday. Activists said regime warplanes have carried out 5 raids on Douma, Saqba and Hamouriya towns east of Damascus, leaving dozens...

A 48-hour ceasefire was declared on Wednesday to halt fighting between Syrian insurgents and the army and its Lebanese militant Hezbollah ally in the rebel-held town of Zabadani and two Shi'ite Muslim villages in Idlib province. The United Nations envoy for Syria said last month...

A Syrian military source said on Tuesday the army had retreated to new defensive lines in a region of vital strategic importance to President Bashar al-Assad, seeking to avoid losses at the hands of advancing rebels. The insurgent advance into the Sahl al-Ghab plain in...

The U.S. State Department Tuesday denied it has agreed to a “safe zone” in northern Syria, after broadcaster CNN Turk quoted a senior Turkish diplomat as saying the countries have settled on terms for such a zone in their campaign against ISIS. “There’s no agreement on some kind of zone,” State...

At least 25 civilians have been killed on Tuesday by the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Atmeh, a border town with Turkey north of Idlb province, activists said. Among the dead was a family of ten members, locals told Zaman al-Wasl. U.S.-led raids...

At least 5 people, including a child, have been killed in artillery explosive cylinder fired by Syrian regime on al-Ghanto village in northern countryside of Homs, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Tuesday.   Meanwhile, Syrian regime air force carried out raids on rebel-held...

Turkish diplomatic sources cited Tuesday a senior Turkish diplomat telling journalists that Turkey and the United States will provide aerial cover and support for Syrian opposition forces that would protect a "safe zone" to be established on the Syrian border. Turkish Foreign Ministry...

The key Islamist group of Ahrar al-Sham, in statement dated on Tuesday, said it supports Turkey's planned buffer zone north of the country, ensuring that Turkish efforts is to save Syria from de facto partition. ِThe Islamic movement said the "Safe Zone" is a popular demand by all Syrians...

Southern Front rebels on Tuesday have launched a major offensive against Syrian forces in the central city of Daraa south the war-torn country, a move comes amid a decline in the army manpower and morale. The new offensive that aims to capture the city of Daraa comes after calm for three...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday Riyadh's position on the conflict in Syria has not changed and that there was no place for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the future of the country. He was speaking after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in...

Syria's death toll for Monday reached 62 people, including 13 children and 5 women, who were killed by Syrian regime air strikes across Syria, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for human Rights said 15 people, including 9 children, had been killed in northern city of Aleppo. As well...

  Syrian authorities have arrested Suleiman al-Assad, a cousin of the president, on suspicion of killing a military officer in a road rage incident, according to the official news agency Sana. “Suleiman Hilal al-Assad has been arrested and transferred to the appropriate authorities,” Sana...

   At least 5 ISIS fighters and 4 rebels have been killed late on Monday after clashes in Marea town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. Marea is the hometown of the late prominent rebel commander, Abdulkader Saleh, who was killed in November 2013,...

The United States and its allies launched 29 air strikes on Sunday targeting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, destroying an explosives factory and other targets, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said. In Iraq, 21 of the strikes were launched near nine cities,...

 A pregnant 15-year-old Swedish girl is being held by the Islamic State group in Syria after running away from her foster home with her boyfriend to join Al-Qaeda, Swedish media reported Monday. The Swedish foreign ministry remained tight-lipped about the case, confirming only minimal...

A fierce fighting is taking place between ISIS and Syrian army in Mhin town near the Christian village of Sadad east Homs, activists said on Monday. The clashes have followed the fallout of al-Qaryatayn town, (90 km) 60 miles east central city of Homs, five days ago by the hardline Sunni...

Dozens of Syrians staged a rare protest in the coastal city of Latakia, bastion of President Bashar al-Assad, calling for the punishment of a member of his family they accuse of killing an army officer over a traffic dispute, monitors said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

The prominent free speech campaigner Mazen Darwish was released from prison in Syria Monday after more than three years behind bars, pending a verdict in his case at the end of this month, his wife and activists said. “We are not saying he is free. There is still a trial,” his wife, Yara...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has withdrawn from frontline positions against Islamic State north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to establish a buffer zone. A Nusra Front statement dated Sunday criticized a Turkish-U.S....