The former chief of opposition Syria National Council (SNC), Abdulbaset Sieda asked the Kurdish parties of the country to join the council, Anatolia news agency said . “ I came in Erbil again to demand the Syrian Kurdish parties to join Syria opposition...

  .   Aleppo rebels released recently the son of Ali Mamlouk, head of the Syrian national security in a deal to replace the prisoners.   The war-college student was arrested months ago when the college became under control of rebels....

A loud explosion was heard near a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia on Wednesday, opposition groups and state media said, but the cause of the blast was unclear. Explosions in Latakia, part of President Bashar al-Assad's stronghold on the Mediterranean coast, have been...

As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said, here in the northern city of Aleppo. Then, virtually overnight,...