Areas of Syria's Hama province captured by Syrian insurgents came under heavy air attack on Thursday as government forces sought to counter a major rebel assault in an area of strategic importance to Bashar al-Assad. The rebel thrust in Hama marks a new challenge to Assad and his allies in a...

Turkish army reinforced its troops in Syria with additional tanks and armored vehicles Thursday, according to a military source. A large number of Turkish tanks were also amassed along the Turkey-Syria border, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has blamed the U.S.-led coalition for failing to provide air support in time to them and the Turkish armed forces during an attack in northern Syria's western Jarabulus late Tuesday. "We could have lost many people," an FSA source, who spoke on condition of...

 Syrian rebels have captured a strategic town in northern Hama province in a major offensive that threatens government loyalist towns populated by minority Christians and Alawites north of the provincial capital, rebels and a monitor said on Tuesday. The town of Halfaya was stormed on...