More than 24 military formations in the East Ghouta issued a statement announcing the unification of brigades and battalions on the Eastern Front to enter Damascus. The first operations were last night in the neighborhood of Jobar Damascus near the abbassiyeen...

   Syrian rebel fighters killed 12 members of a pro-regime militia during clashes overnight in the central city of Homs, and troops responded by shelling them on Friday, monitors said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that,...

  The United Nations' special envoy on children in war was in Syria for talks yesterday, as concern mounts over the rising child death toll in the country's bloody two-year conflict. Six children were among 29 people killed in a devastating army bombardment of five...

Dozens of Syrians in Aleppo have staged protests against a rebel siege of government-held areas in the city, residents have said. Rebels stopped supplies from entering western parts of the city in a bid to weaken the supply routes for President Bashar al-Assad's forces, they add, according...