Here's a list of key fighting groups inside Syria: — SYRIAN GOVERNMENT — Despite major defections early in the conflict and the loss of significant territory to rebels, the Syrian military remains a potent force against an outgunned opposition. President Bashar Assad's inner circle...

  Fierce clashes are taking place in northern Aleppo between rebels and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local source say to Zaman Alwasl. ISIL has seized village of Handarat near Azaz, sources said. Since 72 hours Islamist rebels have engaed in violent...

Syria's Aleppo international airport, closed for a year because of fighting, reopened Wednesday with the landing of a civilian aircraft, state media reported. "A first airplane landed at Aleppo's international airport, after the Syrian army secured the outskirts," state...

Britain on Monday accused Syria's government of committing "yet another war crime" by spraying civilian areas with barrel bombs - oil drums or cylinders which are packed with explosives and metal fragments and dropped from aircraft. Human rights groups say the improvised devices have...