The most powerful rebel alliance fighting in Aleppo province released a video Monday announcing “the first stage” of what they are calling the “I’tassam” campaign targeting a number of military sites in and around Aleppo. The campaign by the Joint Operations Room “will...

A masked gunman opened fire on a well-known, elderly Dutch priest in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, killing him instantly, a fellow priest, an activist group and Syria's state-run media said. Father Francis Van Der Lugt was gunned down inside a monastery in the...

Twenty-eight rebel combatants holding out in encircled Old Homs surrendered themselves and their weapons to regime forces Monday, official government news agency SANA reported. Their surrender comes one day after around 30 rebels were killed when an explosive-laden tank blew up...

The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper. In an interview with daily newspaper As-Safir, Hassan Nasrallah also said the threat of bombings in...