Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...

  Syrian rebels in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh have agreed a local ceasefire with the regime after nearly a year of fighting and bombardment, activists said, according to    Al Jazeera . The opposition local council said that after negotiations...

  Syria's Islamic Front, the country's biggest rebel alliance, issued Sunday a strong warning to jihadists, three days after a new front made up of local insurgents emerged against them. "We fight against whoever attacks us and whoever pushes us to battle, whether...

  Clashes continued Sunday between moderate rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in some of the most serious infighting among those trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The fighting marks the strongest pushback...