The Russian-backed Syrian army has recaptured 16 villages lost to insurgents last week near the city of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. Syrian government forces have been counter-attacking in the area that is of critical importance to President Bashar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes pounded rebel-held areas north of the city of Hama on Thursday in an escalation of airstrikes, a rebel official and activists said, as regime forces fought to reverse the rebels' biggest assault in months. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Orthopedic Doctor Ali Darwish, the latest health worker being killed in regime bombing on medical centers in rebel-held areas. Darwish died of his wounds after an attack by Chlorine-loaded barrel bombs on Latamna hospital in Hama province on Sunday. The attack come as...

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said on Wednesday that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is a "big hindrance in trying to move forward" to find an end to the country's six-year conflict. "I'm not going to go back into should Assad be in or out, been there, done that,...