A medic from Hamas was killed in the Yarmuk refugee camp south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement said. The movement said in a statement that it "mourns the death of the jihadist brother, the martyr, Yehya...

Syrian activists said bodies of 5 brothers from southern province of Daraa were identified by leaked mass torture photos. Jihad, Mohamed, Ahmed, Ridha and khaled Younes Sorour were arrested by Syrian regime forces on August 6 2012. The sixth brother,...

 A Syrian military source accused  Turkey  on Monday of helping Islamist rebels to stage an assault on Idlib, a provincial capital which fighters seized at the weekend. The source declined to comment on the situation in Idlib, citing security considerations, but a...

Russia is supplying weapons to Damascus under contracts completed since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, as well as under earlier deals, President Bashar al-Assad said. Assad's comments, in an interview published by Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Monday,...