The Fatah Army, an alliance of Islamist groups that have seized the city of Idlib on Saturday, said in statement it will continue fighting until liberating more Syrian territories. The statement, which seen by Zaman al-Wasl, said the Army of Fatah is not a joint task room...

Islamist groups including al Qaeda's Nusra Front have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday. By taking Idlib, capital of a northwestern province of the same name, hardline Islamist insurgents now...

(Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad of Syria dismissed as "malicious propaganda" allegations that his troops used chlorine gas in the fight against insurgent rebels, according to an interview broadcast on Friday on CBS "This Morning." Asked about allegations Syrian...

A campaign to train Syrian opposition forces to fight hardline Islamic State militants, which was due to start this month, has been delayed by Washington, Turkey's foreign minister said on Friday. U.S. officials have said they plan to train about 5,000 Syrian fighters annually for three...

Al Fateh Army, an alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels including al Qaeda's Nusra Front, has overrun Syrian regime defense posts in Idlib in an offensive to take the city from the army and allied militia, activists said late Friday. According to activists and the...

The  United Nations   Human Rights Council  has adopted a new resolution calling on Syria  to allow a Commission of Inquiry to continue its work documenting violations and abuses of Human Rights committed by all parties in the country's conflict. The resolution...

The Syrian military, backed by fighters from Hezbollah, used heavy artillery to close in on the city of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese Hezbollah-run al-Manar television reported. It showed footage of fighters in a mountainous area using heavy weapons around...

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(Reuters) - The United States and its allies staged 29 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in the latest round of daily attacks, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Thursday. In Iraq, the coalition conducted 17 air strikes near Tikrit, where Iraqi forces...

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of trying to weaken Russia by turning Ukraine into a puppet state, a tactic he said had also been used against his own country. "I keep coming back to the fact that there is a connection between the Syrian crisis...

Syrian army helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Daraa al- Balad suburb in the southern city of Daraa, killing at least 22 civilians, including 4 children, a monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll is expected to rise...

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Syrian regime president Bashar al-Assad has appointed a new military commander in Hasakah province northeast Syria over demands of his Kurdish allied militias. Pro-regime news feeds said that al-Assad had dismissed General Mohamed Khadour over bloody clashes two months ago between...

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Insurgents have seized a historic town in southern  Syria  from the government, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday, part of a rebel counter-attack to stop Damascus reclaiming the border zone near Israel and Jordan. A Syrian military source reported heavy fighting...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)   “Syrians are not numbers”, a campaign launched by many activists as a condemnation remark to the atrocious photos of prisoners died under torture in Mezzah Militar y Hospital (601) in Damascus.   Rami al-Asheq, a founder...

The Syrian opposition’s National coalition has formed a committee of 8 members to assess the situation in the northeast of Syria and to set a plan endorsing the coexistence and tolerance between Syrian ingredients of Kurd , Arabs , Assyrians and other minorities. Syria's...

  At least 75 Syrian regime fighters were killed on Tuesday in battles with rebels in Busra al-Sham town southern Syria, rebel commander said. Activists said rebels took complete control of the western part of Busra al-Sham, 40 km east of Daraa,  all the way...

Dozens of people, mostly children were hospitalized following an alleged chlorine bomb attack by Bashar al-Assad’s army on opposition-held Idlib in northwestern Syria, medical sources said Tuesday. "The casualties are unfortunately mostly women and children. Luckily, there have...

Syrian activists on Tuesday have accused fighters of Jund al-Aqsa militant group of killing three youths from the Ismaili minority who fled to the town of Sarmada in Idlib province escaping Syrian regime's conscription. Early Monday, civil defense crew of Sarmada town found...