The only way into rebel-held parts of Aleppo was cut Thursday by a Syrian government advance that put the road within firing range, two rebel sources and a group monitoring the conflict said, in effect putting some 250,000 people living there under siege. Rebel groups were waging a fierce...

 Two Syrians accidentally blew themselves up while handling explosives in a house in the southern Turkish border town of Reyhanli, the privately owned Dogan news agency said Thursday. A woman who was at the scene at the time of the blast late Wednesday was later detained by police, Dogan...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- militants of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have before Eid al-Fitr arrested 4 Arabic women belong to revolutionary families In the Eastern countryside of Ras al-Ain in Hasaka province.  Local sources reported that  an...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three children were killed and 8 more were wounded in the first day of Eid al-Fitr in regime air strikes on the northern town of Jisra al-Shughour in Idlib province, activists said. Despite shelling, rebels have agreed to a three-day nationwide ceasefire announced by the...