Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached a tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said. At the June 15 rally, Sunni Muslim clerics used the word...

'Banias Butcher' denied in an interview with Zaman alwasl any responsibility regarding the last bloody massacres in Banias, assuring his full right to defend Syria against the Islamists and Jihadis. Mihraç Ural, who is believed to be behind Bayda Massacres in May...

A powerful car bomb rocked a district of the Syrian capital Damascus overnight, injuring several members of the security forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday . " A large explosion apparently caused by an explosive device placed inside...

  At least 14 people were killed in army shelling on a rebel village near the Syrian capital on Tuesday, as violence raged in flashpoint areas of Damascus and in the central city of Homs, a watchdog said. The shelling comes a day after a powerful car bomb rocked the...