Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...

  Syrian rebels in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh have agreed a local ceasefire with the regime after nearly a year of fighting and bombardment, activists said, according to    Al Jazeera . The opposition local council said that after negotiations...

The negotiations are underway to swap the 14 Maaloula nuns by rebel detainees in Assad’s prisons, well-informed source said to Zaman Alwasl, assuring that the number of nuns   is 14 not 12, in addition to their servant. Bashar al-Assad’s big ally, t ycoon George...

  A massive explosion hit an oil pipeline outside the Syrian town of Tal Kalakh on Friday night amid the fighting that has raged in the region near the border along Lebanon’s northern Akkar region, Now news reported. The oil pipeline from Homs to Tartus was blown up...