20 neighborhoods in Homs still under the regime shelling since yesterday, activists reported. Najati Tayyara, prominent dissident figure set off alarm bells, saying people of the besieged city fear the chemical weapons, according to Eqtsad newspapers.  ''To the second day the...

Activists: ''To the second day the regime jet fighters destroying Homs, killing civilians under green light from the sleeping world.''   20 neighborhoods in Homs still under the regime fierce shelling since yesterday, activists reported. Analyst to Zaman Alwasl...

Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad launched a military offensive on Saturday against rebel-held areas of Homs, the country's third-largest city and a centre of the two-year-old uprising against his rule. Activists said jets and mortars pounded rebel territory and soldiers attacked the...

Some 900 U.S. military personnel, including dozens staying on from joint military drills, are in Jordan to bolster its defense and prevent the Syrian civil war from spreading across its border, Jordan's prime minister said Saturday. It was the first time a Jordanian official disclosed...