Number of young men of Syria's Druze minority, who joined regime army to figh rebels south Syria, have quitted conscription saying regime has breached a promise to not get them involved in fight out of Sweida province, their historic stronghold, activists said Sunday. Local activists also...

Turkey on Sunday began accepting onto its territory Syrian refugees fleeing the battle between Kurds and Islamic State (IS) jihadists for the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, an AFP photographer said. Dozens of Syrian refugees, many carrying sacks of possessions, started passing through the...

Kurdish-led militia backed by U.S.-led air strikes fought Islamic State near a Syrian town at the Turkish border on Sunday, a monitoring group and a Kurdish official said, in an advance that has worried Turkey. Concerned about an expansion of Kurdish sway in Syria, Turkish President Tayyip...

 Syrian state television and an official say two bombs have exploded in government-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs, wounding more than two dozen people. The TV report said the first attack Sunday was a car bomb outside a school that wounded 27 passers-by. A local official...

(Reporting by Sulaiman al-Ahmed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abdul Halim, a pharmacist in a village of Hama's countryside, supervised and participated in Polio vaccination campaign. Despite the hard circumstances in the area, such difficult transportation, lack of electricity and the threat of...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists' stronghold of Raqqa province in a campaign backed by U.S.-led air strikes. Redur Xelil, the YPG spokesman, told...

The al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front acknowledged on Saturday that its members were involved in the killing of Druze villagers in northwestern Syria this week, saying they had violated orders and would face justice. Twenty Druze villagers were reportedly killed in the village of Qalb Loze in Idlib...

(Reporting by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Leen, a 20-year-old Syrian girl lives alone in Istanbul, disappointed and depressed with no interest in life after losing everything in Syria. She lived with her father and brother in Damascus, her mother died when she was young. Her...

Syrian rebels on Saturday announced a new battle in the northern countryside of Hama province, looking to extend a territory they control to link captured Idlib province. Fatha Men Allah battle stated by attacking  regime checkpoints in Sahl al-Ghab. Major. Jamil Saleh, head of the...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance toward an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists' stronghold of Raqqa province with the backing of U.S.-led air strikes. Redur Xelil, the YPG spokesman, told Reuters the YPG and...

Iran is bringing home the body of a top-ranking military officer killed in April in southern Syria, Iranian news agencies reported, at least the second senior Iranian to die there this year while supporting Damascus in the war. Hadi Kajbaf, a major general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary...

The Unified Command of Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus called on Nusra Front to join its alliance instead of forming 'Fatah Army in Ghouta,' according to statement issued Friday, The statement of the key rebel group in embattled Suburbs of Damascus came in response to a call by...

The Syrian government says it has come through worse phases in the four-year-old conflict than the latest advances by insurgents across the country and is confident its army can hit back with the help of its allies. Western officials believe losses in recent months by President Bashar...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, with other three rebel groups operating in eastern Qalamoun have formed their own version of Fatah Army as fighting with ISIS enters new stage after Palmyra takeover where the hardline group is pressing hard to seize control of Syria desert and Qalamoun...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed Three serious incidents took place in the regime-loyal parts of Homs city, but they pass through without any punishment or action taken. First one was in Abassiyeh neighborhood when many armed people advance toward a barrier for the regime and shot toward guards...

By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Fatima Kotaish, a Syria girl, refugee in Ramtha city in Jordan, suffers of severe burns in her head for two and a half year. Fatima was burned with hot oil, when she entered quickly to her family’s tent in Zatari, and she hit the pot of boiling oil...

Members of Syria's Druze minority have helped repel a rebel attack on an army base in the south, mobilizing to confront insurgents including al Qaeda's Nusra Front who are trying to build on gains against President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based...

Macedonian police have detained 128 illegal migrants from Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries sheltering in five houses in a village near the border with Serbia, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Villagers had rented their houses to the migrants for 1,500 euros ($1,685) a...

Tawhid Party chief Wiam Wahhab Thursday urged Druze to form an armed force to defend themselves after at least 20 members of their community were killed by Nusra Front militants in northwest Syria. “We will not accept to sell Druze blood!” Wahhab, a former minister, said in an angry televised...

A Syrian rebel alliance said it had captured an air base from the army in southern Syria Thursday, a gain that would compound setbacks for President Bashar Assad in the area after losing a nearby military base this week. Issam al-Rayyes, spokesman for the Southern Front alliance of...