“I am coming down in 5 minutes. No! Wait, I need to see you before we go to my family. He comes in and I expectbad news. What happened? My brother! Dead?! He cries and hands me his iphone to read a skype conference with his brother in Syria.” His brother is serving in the...

Dozens of Syrians in Aleppo have staged protests against a rebel siege of government-held areas in the city, residents have said. Rebels stopped supplies from entering western parts of the city in a bid to weaken the supply routes for President Bashar al-Assad's forces, they add, according...

For months, the western rural region of Homs was an unusual model of coexistence in Syria's brutal two-year-old civil war. Now, it risks becoming a dark episode in the country's deepening sectarian conflict. Syria's uprising-turned-war has forced most Syrians to take sides in a struggle that...

Crimes by Islamic militia 'State of Iraq an al-Sham' has been increasing,    amid an atmosphere of bewilderment among Syrians. The last crime was killing member of the revolutionary council in Lattakia and noble leader in Free Syrian Army. The commander of chief...