The United Nations has appealed for a record $6.5 billion for Syria and its neighbours to help 16 million people, many of them hungry or homeless victims of a conflict that has lasted 33 months with no end in sight. The Syrian appeal accounted for half of an overall...

General leadership of rebels command in Eastern Ghotua in statement issued today said more than 800 militant of the forces loyal to Basher al-Assad have been killed in Ghouta recent battles.   The statement said that rebels had captured 44 armored vehicles  and...

Sweden's security police, SAPO, says at least 75 people have left the country to fight in Syria since mid-2012, more than doubling an estimate from earlier this year. The figures presented Monday underscore a trend seen across Europe of fighters joining al-Qaida-linked...

  Gen. Jayez Mousa, Commander of Dumeir Military airbase, most powerful airport in Syria, has threatened to wipe off the city of   Dumeir, 46 km (30 miles) east Damascus unless the rebels give up fighting on the enclaves of the desert city and give back the...