Homs (Syria) (AFP) - The last rebels were set to leave Syria's battleground city of Homs on Friday, handing a symbolic victory to President Bashar al-Assad in what was once dubbed the capital of the revolution. For two years the rebels fought to keep besieging government forces at...

    Syrian activists have posted an audio recording for a commander in Bashar al-Assad’s army showed he was ordering his soldiers to use chemical weapons against rebels in areas affiliated to his control in Idlib and Hama provinces....

Syrian social media activists have launched on Thursday a new hashtag on Twitter # BloodElections “to expose the coming presidential elections,” calling for all activists inside Syria and abroad to take apart in the campaign.   The campaign organizers...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping up pressure on Syria, the Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned six Syrian officials and a Russian bank for their alleged support of the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been fighting opposition forces in a 3-year-old bloody civil...