A British man thought to have carried out a suicide bombing in Syria last week was Abdul Waheed Majid, the BBC has learned. The 41-year-old, from Crawley in West Sussex, is believed to have carried out a suicide truck bombing in the city of Aleppo last Thursday. Officials have not...

  Bashar al-Assad’s military intelligence has arrested members of Souriya Al Jadid Party (en: New Syria) from their office in Tartous after their call to get rid of both regime and opposition figures, according to activists.  The powerful intelligence branch has...

Bashar al-Assad's forces and allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah stepped up attacks on Syria's strategic border town of Yabroud on Wednesday, activists said, in apparent preparation for a new offensive to flush out rebels. The assault is the latest step in Assad and...

The second round of Syria peace talks has got off to a stormy start against a backdrop of continued rescue of civilians from the beseiged city of Homs. Members of Syria's government and opposition delegations blamed each other in Geneva on Monday for mortar attacks on convoys bringing...