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Egypt deports Syrians and Palestinians to Assad prisons

  The Information Office of the Revolutionary Command Council in Damascus said That Egyptian security forces had arrested and deported a group of young Syrians and Palestinians, on charges of fomenting riots, ''they are now being detained in the prisons of the regime of Bashar...

Congress delaying U.S. aid to Syrian rebels

Congressional committees are holding up a plan to send U.S. weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and the arms might end up in the hands of Islamist militants, five U.S. national security sources said....

Battles intensify in Syria's strategic city of Homs

  Syrian troops fought with rebels in Homs on Monday in a battle seen as crucial to the government's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held areas and establish links between the capital and President Bashar al-Assad's coastal strongholds. Assad's forces have been on the...