Syrian army artillery has killed a family of 5 members in the mountainous town of Madhaya near the stricken city of Zabadani on the Lebanese border, activists said on Saturday. Meanwhile, thousands of families fled Zabadani and neighboring villages as fighting between Assad forces backed...

 The Syrian regime army and allied militia NDF have regained control over several northwestern villages from rebels on a plain crucial for defending coastal areas that Damascus holds, Reuters said on Saturday. The military is battling insurgents including al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front...

A new batch of Ahrar al-Sham fighters have been graduated in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, according to a video posted online Friday by the moderate Sunni movement. The video showed tens of Ahrar al-Sham fighters in their graduation ceremony in al-Shoumoukh training camps in the...

Syrian National Security Bureau chief Ali Mamlouk has visited Riyadh for an unusual sit-down with Saudi deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, according to a report in a leading pro-Assad Lebanese newspaper. Al-Akhbar reported Friday morning that Russian President Vladimir Putin...