''Our duty is to protect civilians by all means until topple of Bashar al-Assad  where we can build the civil state, ''  one of ' Civilians Protection Authority' founders said.   Lieutenant Col. Mohammed Bakkour, leader of al-Ansar brigade,  has...

    Mennegh Military Airport has been fully liberated by rebels after an eight-month siege The liberation battle started on Monday with 2 suicide bombers carried with him six tons of explosives in an armored vehicle and detonated it at the entrance of the air base,...

Syrian rebel fighters armed with anti-tank missiles pushed toward President Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha on Monday, the second day of a surprise offensive in the heartland of his minority Alawite sect, opposition activists said. Forces comprising 10 mainly Islamist brigades,...

Syrian rebels captured four Alawite villages on the country's mountainous Mediterranean coast on Monday as they battled government troops in one of President Bashar Assad's strongholds for the second straight day, activists said. Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, dominate...