Extremist groups have forced their laws on the people of northern and eastern Syria, severely restricting freedoms and imposing harsh sentences for disobedience. The Islamic State group's extreme interpretation of Islamic teaching holds sway in large areas of the country, including its...

Syria's President Bashar Assad Tuesday praised Iran's support as a "key pillar" in his fight against rebels, as a third Iranian official visited Damascus in less than a week. The visits come after several military losses for the Syrian government and as Tehran negotiates a key nuclear deal with...

Jordan Tuesday rejected Syrian accusations that "terrorists" were being given military training on its soil, insisting Amman favored a political solution to its neighbor's conflict. The Syrian foreign ministry, in a protest letter sent to the United Nations Monday, alleged Jordan "provides...

Syrian Islamist rebels on Tuesday have seized full control of regime’s powerful stronghold of of al-Mastouma camp in Idlib province, for the first time since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups, including the Nusra Front, who seized large...

  A new chlorine attack has taken place in Mishmishan village in the Syrian north-western province of Idlib, a monitoring group said Tuesday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said at least 19 victims suffocating due to chlorine gas attack on Mishmishan village near the captured...

SALHIYEH, Jordan (AP) — A Syrian refugee couple and their baby boy were recently dropped from a U.N. food voucher program and live on $9-a-day jobs on a peach farm in northern Jordan. In a town nearby, a 16-year-old boy quit school to work as a mechanic’s helper because his refugee...

( By Al-Souria Net, Translation by The Syrian Observer) In an exclusive interview with al-Souria Net, Army of Islam commander Zahran Alloush reveals that the major decision-making power in Syria is now in the hands of Iran, explaining that the recent assassination of senior regime officers was...

ISIS jihadis attacked a village in Syria's southern Druze heartland Tuesday and clashed with pro-government forces north of the ancient city of Palmyra, an activist group said. "ISIS killed five fighters from the National Defense Forces and one woman in their attack on the Druze village of...

 Syria has accused Jordan of training "terrorists" on its soil and urged the U.N. Security council to force an end to Amman's backing of rebel groups. The accusation came in a letter sent Monday by the foreign ministry to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the president of the U.N....

ISIS seized two gas fields Monday northeast of Syria's ancient Palmyra, a day after firing rockets into the city and killing five people, activists said. The Al-Hail and Arak gas fields, 40 and 25 kilometers (25 and 15 miles) respectively from Palmyra, were vital for the government's...

The captured wife of a senior Islamic State leader who was killed in a weekend raid will face questions over what she and her husband knew about the group's treatment of hostages, including Americans, U.S. officials said. The U.S. government believes the leader, Abu Sayyaf, was...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Lebanese Army has exceeded all the red lines in the bad treatment of Syrian refugees, they even forced a woman to get out of the bathroom naked beside humiliating children and women.  Sheikh Hosam Ghali, member of the International Union for Muslim...

The U.N. Syria envoy who is presiding over the Geneva peace consultations, has asked the National Coalition for a new meeting in Istanbul, days after an official rejection to attend the planned Geneva talks by the Western-backed opposition and armed groups. Zaman al-Wasl source said the...

Syrian Islamist rebels on Sunday have seized control of strategic towns of al-Mastouma and al-Muqbela in Idlib province, pressing hard to capture a nearby military camp, activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups including the Nusra Front want to cut a supply route links Ariha town with...

 Nearly 300 people have been killed in several days of fighting since ISIS launched an attack against Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, an activist group said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said the toll...

Islamic State may take full control of the historic city of Palmyra by Sunday as the radical group makes significant advances of the city in the last few days, local activists said.  ISIS militants had seized control of al-Ameriya and al-Villat neighborhoods as well it number of...

Hezbollah’s leader has claimed to have made significant progress in the ongoing clashes in the Qalamoun mountain range, but warned that the battles are far from being over.  Yet analysts claim the Lebanese group, currently fighting in Syria alongside the Syrian government, is attempting to...

At least 48 civilians, including nine children, were killed on Saturday in regime air raids on Syria's northwest province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. "Air strikes by regime aircraft on Idlib city and the towns of Saraqeb and Kafr Awid," all controlled by rebel...

 The United States and its allies conducted six air strikes in Syria and 15 in Iraq since early Friday targeting ISIS militants, the Combined Joint Task Force carrying out the operations said Saturday. In Syria, air strikes using bomber and fighter aircraft hit near Al-Hasakah, the task...

U.S. commandos mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria overnight, killing dozens of militants and a senior ISIS commander in a firefight, capturing his wife and rescuing a Yazidi woman held as a slave, the Pentagon said Saturday. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the raid, identifying...