Rebels and Bashar al-Assad force have reached a rare agreement to cease airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo in order to restore electricity and water supplies after ten days of outage and lack of utilities in regime- held areas, al-Qaeda-linked group...

  KHAN AL-SUBUL, Syria — Under the leadership of a young, battle-hardened rebel commander, the men entrusted with the first American missiles to be delivered to the Syrian war are engaged in an ambitious effort to forge a new, professional army. Abdullah Awda, 28, says...

(Reuters) - War and drought have crippled Syria's wheat crop, with some experts now forecasting output of the staple food could fall to around a third of pre-war levels, and possibly even below 1 million metric tons ( 1 metric ton = 1.1023 tons) for the first time in 40 years....

Reporting by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad The ongoing conflict in Syria has its major impact on the Syrian regime in a war the caused severe attrition in its soldiers, where many either killed, ran away to escape death, or defected to defend the...