The job was too much for Kofi Annan. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former U.N. secretary general - hardly known as a quitter - threw in the towel in August 2012, declaring that serving as international mediator for Syria was impossible as long as global powers were hopelessly divided....

      The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) said in statement, posted online yesterday, that two fighters of its armed group, loyal to Assad,  were killed in a clash with the Free Syrian Army in Al Hosn district of Homs province. “They were...

    The Turkish armed forces attacked a convoy of al Qaeda-linked rebel vehicles in Syria in retaliation for cross-border fire on Tuesday, destroying three vehicles, Turkish media said on Wednesday. Turkish troops opened fire on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...

  Syrian government forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held districts of Aleppo Wednesday, killing 13 people as they pressed an assault southeast of the northern city, a monitoring group said. Government troops also battled rebel forces near Krak des Chevaliers, a famed...