Jordan, where the US Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction programme, US officials say. Jordan's reticence, confirmed by four US officials, is a potentially serious setback...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The video on his phone shows the boy firing a heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod through a hole in a crumbling building, his slender body shaking from the kickback. “We were kind of nervous, not because we are cowards, because it was our first fight...

(Reporting by Ma’moon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Dani Murad) In a war that grew out of pro-democracy protests in the summer of 2011, Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have used sieges as a war tactic to root out rebel forces from residential areas,...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Opposition activists warn of further rifts between rebels ranks in the northern province of Aleppo as regime troops have been making rapid advances since last week. Aleppo’s activists have organized a campaign to mobilize efforts and...