A  video   message purporting to show a Russian man abducted in  Syria  set a deadline of five days for the release of a detained Saudi national in exchange for the Russian's freedom, Reuters reported. The footage posted on YouTube showed a bearded man...

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...

  Syria's opposition National Coalition is to meet November 9 to decide on the divisive issue of whether to take part in peace talks in Geneva, a Coalition member said Thursday. "We have decided to put off the (Coalition's) General Assembly and political committee...

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...