UNTIL last month the leader of Ahrar al-Sham (the Free Men of Syria), a large Salafist rebel group, went by a  nom de guerre . Then on June 8th Hassan Aboud revealed his real name in an interview with Al Jazeera, the Qatari satellite television channel. Days later he attended a Salafist...

  ''Our voice chanting the Revolutionary songs is louder than the sound of bullets,'' that's the job of our tent in Salah al-Din suburb in the capital city of North Syria, Aleppo, Activists said to Zaman Alwasl. Despite the war, rebels insisted to keep one of the holy...

Syrian rebels seized a strategic village on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, activists said, just a day after opposition fighters sustained some of their heaviest losses in months in battles to the south near Damascus. Government troops killed at least 75 rebels in and...

  No place for Shabiha corpses in Tartus graveyards, even if they were killed defending the Assad regime as their number has increased sharply in recent says as a result of violent fights between the FSA and pro-Assad militias . Some fanatics in the coastal city, Tartus, 350...