More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war that began in March 2011, an NGO said on Wednesday. The tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as renewed regime air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo killed at...

The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit on Wednesday for hacking into the social media accounts of Internet calling service Skype. The group also posted the contact information of Steve Ballmer, ...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition has condemned the killing of Dr. Hussein al-Suleiman, also known as Abu Rayyan, by the Islamic State in Iraq and Th e  L e vant  in Tel Abyad in Raqqa Province. Suleiman, a member of the insurgent faction Ahrar...

Top officials of the main two opposition groups in Syria, western-backed National Coalition and Russian-backed National Coordination Body, had met in Cairo since two weeks to bolster dialogue between and boost their cohesion ahead of Geneva 2, well-informed source told Zaman...