Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee  Syria .  Iraq ,  Jordan , and Turkey  have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of...

The war on the besieged city is fateful,  Head of Homs Local council said  in a message delivered to the national Council and to the Chiefs of Staff ; losing the city will be big loss to the revolution and to the opposition, losing the war will be unbearable tough loss, he...

 National coalition pleas International leader on Homs, Activists warn of hit by chemical weapons . Assad's forces launched a major offensive in the last two days against rebels in Homs, a centre of the two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting...

 Chinese state media blamed Syrian government and opposition forces on Monday, in unusually specific finger pointing, for training Muslim extremists responsible for the deadliest unrest in four years in China's far-western region of Xinjiang. China  has traditionally blamed...