Syrian troops pressed an advance Thursday on the strategic area of Sfeira, the site of several arms factories near Aleppo, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Fierce clashes are raging between the rebels and regime troops on the eastern side of...

  One Syrian security official called it the "Starvation Until Submission Campaign", blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of  Syria . Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from...

Rebel source said dozens of Regime Army Soldiers have been killed  by al-Qaeda affiliate fighters yesterday  after ambush targeted their military convoy in al-Sfiera city near Aleppo.  The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant have planted the main road of the city...

Syria has destroyed or rendered inoperable all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament program, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...