Insurgents have seized a historic town in southern  Syria  from the government, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday, part of a rebel counter-attack to stop Damascus reclaiming the border zone near Israel and Jordan. A Syrian military source reported heavy fighting...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)   “Syrians are not numbers”, a campaign launched by many activists as a condemnation remark to the atrocious photos of prisoners died under torture in Mezzah Militar y Hospital (601) in Damascus.   Rami al-Asheq, a...

  At least 75 Syrian regime fighters were killed on Tuesday in battles with rebels in Busra al-Sham town southern Syria, rebel commander said. Activists said rebels took complete control of the western part of Busra al-Sham, 40 km east of Daraa,  all the way...

Syrian rebels launched an offensive Tuesday against a major government-held city in northwestern Syria, shelling the outskirts and warning residents to remain indoors in the coming days. The target of the operation is Idlib, a city of some 165,000 people and the provincial capital...