Syrian rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the Jabal Akrad mountains overlooking the Mediterranean on Sunday and a monitoring group said at least 30 people were killed. Video footage showed fighters identified as members of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist...

  Assad's forces have imposed more restrictions on movement and transportation of the people in the embattled city of Homs.  The latest procedures were demanding birth certificate which assured that the person is originally from Homs neighborhoods and establishing special...

Iran's new president expressed his country's support to Syria's embattled leader Bashar Assad's regime Sunday, saying no force in the world will be able to shake their decades-old alliance. Hasan Rouhani's comments came as Syrian troops and rebels fought some of the fiercest battles in the...

Syrian traders who price goods in foreign currency will face up to 10 years in jail, the regime news Agency (SANA) published on Sunday in a move aimed at stemming the increasing dollarization of an  economy  crippled by two years of cracking down the Syrian revolution. A decree...