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Regime Offensive Begins in Key Area of Qalamoun

A well-placed EA correspondent reports heavy clashes on Friday. Hezbollah, Shia militias, and shabiha, pro-Assad militia, are involved as well as the Syrian Arab Army. The Army is primarily taking care of logistics and providing air support. The military is also carrying out...

Albanian 'No' deals blow to Syria chemical weapons plan

Albania rejected on Friday a U.S. request to host the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, dealing a blow to a U.S.-Russian accord to eliminate the nerve agents from the country's protracted civil war. Negotiations went down to the wire, delaying the scheduled adoption on...

Syrian air raid kills rebel commander in Aleppo: activists

A Syrian rebel commander in a main Islamist brigade was killed and two others were injured in an air strike by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Aleppo, activists said on Friday, in a setback to rebels defending the city against a loyalist attack. Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub...