Al Fateh Army, an alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels including al Qaeda's Nusra Front, has overrun Syrian regime defense posts in Idlib in an offensive to take the city from the army and allied militia, activists said late Friday. According to activists and the...

The Syrian military, backed by fighters from Hezbollah, used heavy artillery to close in on the city of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese Hezbollah-run al-Manar television reported. It showed footage of fighters in a mountainous area using heavy weapons around...

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(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of trying to weaken Russia by turning Ukraine into a puppet state, a tactic he said had also been used against his own country. "I keep coming back to the fact that there is a connection between the Syrian crisis...