Activists: ''To the second day the regime jet fighters destroying Homs, killing civilians under green light from the sleeping world.''   20 neighborhoods in Homs still under the regime fierce shelling since yesterday, activists reported. Analyst to Zaman Alwasl...

 Sitting in the salon of a modest house on the outskirts of this southern Turkish city, a group of Syrian refugees congregate around freshly prepared meze. Jokes are exchanged. Mahmud al-Hosseini sits cross-legged, anxiously rubbing his wrists together. This is a nervous tic he...

Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad launched a military offensive on Saturday against rebel-held areas of Homs, the country's third-largest city and a centre of the two-year-old uprising against his rule. Activists said jets and mortars pounded rebel territory and soldiers attacked the...

A Kurdish militia allied with Turkey’s rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) imposed a curfew on the Syrian border town of Amuda on Friday after its forces shot three protesters dead, activists said. The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has controlled large swathes of Hasakeh...