State-run media mourned Sunday senior commander in Syria regime army, saying he was killed "during his national duty," in Aleppo. Activists say the deputy chairman of the security committee in Aleppo province, Major General Younes Ali Ibrahim, died of his wounds. Early Sunday, another top army...

Islamist rebels Friday overran a hospital in northwest Syria where at least 150 regime forces and dozens of civilians were trapped for nearly a month, activists said. Al-Nusra Front, which is Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, and other factions "have taken complete control of Jisr al-Shughour...

At least 40 rebels were killed as an army airstrike on their base in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo triggered a huge explosion Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Islamist rebels had shells stored at the base, which magnified the blast, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head, Rami...

Al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, said on Thursday it had released 27 Islamic State fighters who were arrested week ago with 23 others in the mountainous region of Qalamoun near the Lebanese border. Nusra's Shariah court said the freed fighters 'had not involved in killing acts against...