More than 24 military formations in the East Ghouta issued a statement announcing the unification of brigades and battalions on the Eastern Front to enter Damascus. The first operations were last night in the neighborhood of Jobar Damascus near the abbassiyeen...

Military support from  Iran  and its Shi'ite ally Hezbollah has given Syrian President Bashar al-Assad new impetus in his fight against the insurgents intent on ousting him, but at a price. Assad now risks losing much of his autonomy to Tehran and becoming a pawn in a wider...

  At least 14 people were killed in army shelling on a rebel village near the Syrian capital on Tuesday, as violence raged in flashpoint areas of Damascus and in the central city of Homs, a watchdog said. The shelling comes a day after a powerful car bomb rocked the...

Syrian opposition fighters attacked two security compounds in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least five people, opposition activists in the capital told Reuters news agency. Fighters attacked a compound in the district of Rukn al-Din with explosives and another in Bab Musalla with mortar...