Syrian forces seized a suburb of Damascus on Thursday from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in a push that has shored up government control of the capital's outskirts, state television reported. Assad's forces, backed by Shi'ite fighters from Lebanon,  Iraq...

Much of Syria, including the capital Damascus, was hit by a power cut late on Wednesday after rebels attacked a gas pipeline, state media said. "A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces and work to repair it...

Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria has appointed new Emir for al-Dana town in Idlib countryside after assassinating its emire Abu Abdullah al-Lybi by unknown armed group next to Bab al-Hawa crossing border last week, special source told Zaman Alwasl. The State of Iraq and al-Sham...

Assad's army has sealed the few remaining smuggling routes into the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus, activists and aid workers said on Wednesday, tightening a chokehold on rebel-held areas near the capital. Activists inside the Eastern Ghouta region, a semicircle of rural towns...