A rebel commander has frozen to death due to the biting cold brought by a snowstorm that has swept Syria this week, a monitoring group said on Saturday.        The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that "the body of...

Syrian rebel commanders from the Islamic Front which seized control of bases belonging to Western-backed rebels last week are due to hold talks with U.S. officials in Turkey  in coming days, rebel and opposition sources said on Saturday. The expected contacts between...

Syrian children have suffered the "sharpest and most rapid" decline in education standards in the history of the region, UN and aid agencies said in a report published Friday. "Nearly three years of brutal conflict in Syria have reversed more than a decade of progress in children's...

 Islamist rebels linked to al Qaeda kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians on Friday from a village near the Turkish border in Aleppo province, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters entered...