Air raids on rebel-held towns across  Syria  killed 26 people on Monday, activists said, two days after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to indiscriminate shelling and aerial attacks. Syria's almost three-year-old conflict has raged on...

Syrian intelligence has freed Akram al-Bunni, t he prominent leftist writer and former political prisoner  o n Monday ,  his brother Anwar said on his Facebook page. Al Bunni   was abducted as he left a wedding reception at a central Damascus hotel on...

Syria’s Health Ministry says swine flu has killed 9 people in Hama province with 36 swine flu cases across the country.   Syria’s Health Ministry confirmed the country’s first case of swine flu in 2009 when an Australian woman of Syrian origin arrived in the country...

  It appeared to be a huge step forward for the scattered rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria: the creation of a central body of top insurgent commanders who would coordinate military campaigns, direct foreign support and serve as a unifying force...