At least 20 people were killed in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr on Friday when barrel bombs dropped by Basher al-Assad’s forces on the embattled neighborhood, activists and monitoring group said. Sources to Zaman Alwasl said that army troops have...

Iran said Friday that next week's presidential election in Syria, branded a farce by Western governments, will boost the legitimacy of its ally Bashar al-Assad. "God willing, the elections in Syria will be carried out without a hitch," said Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior...

DAMASCUS, May 30 (Reuters) - As Syria approaches a surreal presidential election in the midst of civil war, the capital has avoided the worst of the conflict but reminders are increasingly coming out the water taps and appearing on the dinner table, to the dismay of Damascenes....

BEIRUT (AP) — Crude bombs dropped by Syrian government forces on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo have killed nearly 2,000 people so far this year, an activist group said Friday. The grim figure is the latest addition to the deadly tally from Syria's civil war,...