Islamist groups including al Qaeda's Nusra Front have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday. By taking Idlib, capital of a northwestern province of the same name, hardline Islamist insurgents now...

(Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad of Syria dismissed as "malicious propaganda" allegations that his troops used chlorine gas in the fight against insurgent rebels, according to an interview broadcast on Friday on CBS "This Morning." Asked about allegations Syrian...

Al Fateh Army, an alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels including al Qaeda's Nusra Front, has overrun Syrian regime defense posts in Idlib in an offensive to take the city from the army and allied militia, activists said late Friday. According to activists and the...

The Syrian military, backed by fighters from Hezbollah, used heavy artillery to close in on the city of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese Hezbollah-run al-Manar television reported. It showed footage of fighters in a mountainous area using heavy weapons around...