(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Syrian army defector Abdul Hamid Zakaria is still alive and has not been killed in Aleppo battles, source said as activists circulate news of Zakariya's death in clashes with regime forces. The man who had been mourned was a relative of Zakaria who had the same name...

 At least 60 people have been killed in three days of fighting in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as violence continues to escalate. Seven children and 10 women were among those killed in a series of air strikes by the government side and...

President Barack Obama will announce on Monday he plans to send as many as 250 additional U.S. troops to Syria, a sharp increase in the American presence working with local Syrian forces fighting Islamic State militants, U.S. officials said. The deployment, which will increase U.S. forces in...

 Air strikes and shelling pounded Aleppo for a third straight day on Sunday, killing two young siblings and at least 24 others in Syria's largest city and former commercial capital. The northern city has been bitterly contested between insurgents and government forces since 2012....