Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 13 members of a family in the Sunni Muslim village of Baida on Sunday, in what activists said was the second massacre there, according to Reuters. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four women and six children...

Kurdish rebels freed Abu Musa, the local commander of al-Qaeda-linked group in Tel Abyad near Syria's northern border, Reuters reported.   Abu Musa, the local commander of a Syrian rebel group affiliated to al-Qaeda, was freed on Sunday after being held by Kurdish forces during a...

  Syrian Human rights Observatory said more than 60 opposition fighters were killed in violence that has raged in the northeastern province of Hassakeh this week. Pro-government Kurdish fighters captured a major checkpoint Saturday morning in the province after intense clashes with...

    Assad's forces bombed a strategic rebel town in the country's north for the third straight day Saturday, pounding it with airstrikes that killed at least five people, activists said.   Assad's troops in recent weeks have seized the momentum in the civil...