A rebel mortar attack killed four civilians on Sunday in the Syrian capital as government forces battled Islamic State group jihadists in the northern city of Hasakeh, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a mortar round struck Revolution Street in central Damascus,...

A well-informed source said no one of the commanders of the Southern Front and Nusra Front have been killed in the regime airstrike on their meeting in Garz town in the southern province of Daraa on Saturday. The meeting of Southern Front and Syria's al-Qaeda wing, the Nusra Front, was to...

Syrian Kurdish fighters said they had fully secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group launched an incursion with suicide bombers. Further east, Islamic State pressed another assault on...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A diplomatic Saudi document published among the 60 thousand leaked documents on WikiLeaks, mentioned that Syria had supported the former Minister of Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, who became the President of France in 2007, by helping in calming down the riots spread in...