At least 40 bodies of men, women and children were discovered on Saturday in the Syrian town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb, in an apparent new massacre, the Syrian Revolutionary Council reported, following a heavy shelling campaign by the regime’s army. The opposition...

White tents with "The U.N. Refugee Agency" written on them flap in the wind outside the Lebanese mountain town of Arsal. Children run past latrines and water points. In all respects, it is a refugee camp, but you must not call it that, say officials. The site is home to about 350...

Rebel forces said Thursday that they had shot down 3 fighter jets in Damascus countryside. The first Bashar al-Assad’s MIG-23 has shot down by Islam Army near Dumeir airbase, second downed close to al-Nasseriya military Airport and the third was a helicopter in eastern...

Intent on supplying his government with arms, oil and food, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned to Russian  banks  to access world markets , and the lenders could open more doors to him, despite a risk of isolation from the U.S. banking system. U.S. sanctions...