The United Nations said Thursday it was in talks with Iran, Russia and Turkey over who should control proposed safe zones in Syria, a key question after Damascus rejected any international monitors. The U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura and humanitarian pointman Jan Egeland both said...

Syrian government warplanes struck rebel outposts near the Jordanian border early Tuesday, rebels said, bringing the war closer to Syria's U.S.-allied neighbour to the south. The airstrikes, at around 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) were the first near that part of the border, a Jordanian official said....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Western-backed FSA faction attacked regime bastions in the Syrian desert after bombing its outposts near the Jordanian border early Tuesday, press offcier said. Usoud al-Sharqiya, which is the largest group operating in the Syrian Desert bordering Jordan, has attacked...

( Middle East Eye )- A green steel barrel loaded with explosives and petrol and crammed with bullets, screws, off-cuts from broken machinery - anything metal and sharp - lays bare the crudeness and cruelty of a war in which hundred of thousands have died. But this "barrel bomb" is far from...