Secretary of State John Kerry is at odds with several senior State Department officials over whether to press ahead with plans for a high-profile peace conference next month that is designed to put negotiators from Syria’s main opposition groups and the government of Syrian President...

  Col. Abdul Jabbar al-Aqidi, the commander of the Revolutionary Military Council in rebel-held areas in Aleppo has resigned in response to the latest gains by Assad Army as the fractions and disputes among rebels have been mounting. Aqidi who joined the Free Syrian...

Assad troops took over the village of Aziziyeh,  In the northern province of Aleppo,  days after seizing the strategic town of Sfeira from rebel hands, according to the Aleppo Media Centre, a network of anti-government activists.   Rebels' concerns have...

 Syrian air and land forces have pressed ahead with an intensified campaign against rebel-held pockets around Damascus, as Kurdish fighters in the country's north drove home advances against al-Qaeda-linked groups, monitoring agencies report. The Syrian Observatory...