In early June 2011, some three months into the uprising against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Syrian government forces began preparing for a large-scale assault on Jisr al-Shughour, a rebellious border town sixty-five miles southwest of Aleppo. The events that led to this...

Syrian insurgents pressed a new assault in the strategic, heavily-defended southwestern suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday, saying they aimed to break an army blockade of rebel-held areas. Rebels fired mortars at government forces while army shelling hit the suburb of Derayya, the scene of...

Talks between Russia and the United States on the conflict in Syria are not going very smoothly, a secior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday “Unfortunately it’s necessary to note that in contacts with the Americans, things are not going so smoothly...they are not quite going in the...

Rawan Kaddah, 16-year-old, Syrian girl had forced to confess practicing sex jihad in an interview with Assad-run media, activists said. Kaddah who belongs to a well-know family from the city of Dara'a where the Syrian revolution broke out March 2011, claimed that she had worked...