Syrian government forces recaptured four northwestern villages Tuesday as they pounded the area with airstrikes in a counter-attack on insurgents threatening strongholds of President Bashar Assad, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Government warplanes by Tuesday...

Well-informed sources said on Wednesday Syrian regime army backed by Lebanese ally Hezbollah may take full control of  the besieged city of Zabadani in the few coming hours after a 50-day campaign to capture it from rebels.  Rebel sources said the fall of the city, about 45 km (30...

(Reporting by Soufyan Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Riyadh Idris, the Director of the Surgical Medical rescuing center in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian Refugees called the medical bodies and agencies to look to Yarmouk’s status after disconnecting all methods of support , he warned of...

  A senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front was killed  on Monday  in southern city of Daraa by unidentified gunmen, activists said. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by unknown group broke into a...