Dramatic video appears to capture the moment a shell lands near a group of children on the outskirts of Damascus. Despite the proximity of the explosion all the children survive and are seen later in the video smiling and talking about the near miss. It is estimated over 7,000...

Sheikh Zahran Alloush, leader of key armed opposition group in Syria,  tweeted on his official account  that the road to break Ghouta's siege is very close. Islam Army, with 50 fighting groups operate under its command, has lost 65 jihadist during the liberation...

An Al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Syria has announced the execution of two soldiers and three "collaborators" with President Bashar al-Assad's regime near Damascus, according to a statement published on jihadist sites. The Al-Nusra Front also published a photograph showing...

  Syrian authorities will attend talks in January aimed at resolving the civil war but will not succumb to Western demands for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, a Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday. It was the first formal response from Damascus to this week's...