The Syrian government has retaken territory around the northern city of Aleppo, the military said on Tuesday, after two weeks of rebel infighting that has weakened the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. The internecine conflict among some within the chaotic plethora of...

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Monday appealed for donations to a nationwide fund-raising campaign to support the Syrian people facing a serious humanitarian crisis due the country’s civil war. The emir issued “a distress call to citizens, men and...

  The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has taken most of the town of al-Bab in Syria's Aleppo province after fighting with rebels, an NGO said Monday. The advance by the group in the country's turbulent north comes after 10 days of fighting pitting...

The "Friends of Syria", an alliance of mainly Western and Gulf Arab countries who oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, urged opposition groups on Sunday to attend this month's peace talks, saying there was no alternative for a political solution. "There is no other political...