Momentum that has swept Syrian rebels to a series of swift victories over President Bashar Assad appears to have slowed in two major attacks aimed at capturing the cities of Aleppo in the north and Deraa in the south. The reasons include a determined military effort by the government and its...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syria's Salamiyeh city in the eastern countryside of Hama province is no longer surrounded with fear in the east, sadness and dust in the south like what Mohammed al-Maghout, the city’s well-known poet,  described it years ago. Today, Salamiyeh is surrounded...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, has recaptured districts that lost last April in Yarmouk refugee camp after a counter attack on regime forces in the embattled district in Damascus, killing 25 soldiers and militants, activists said on Thursday. Activists said Nusra had taken buildings...

A key rebel group operating under Southern Front in Daraa province, said over disputes with other rebel groups it will not continue its mission as a guardian of Nasib border crossing which rebels had captured last April, according to statement issued Wednesday. Yarmouk Army said some rebel...