Clashes broke out between the Ansar al-Islam battalion and the Kurdish police forces in the al-Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood east of Aleppo city, reports of human losses from both sides, Syrian observatory said.  The British-based Human Rights observatory said al-Leirmon area...

  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...

An army assault on Homs in central Syria entered its 13th day on Thursday, as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan brought no relief to people in rebel areas, activists said. "There isn't a minute that goes by that we do not hear the sound of a rocket or a shell hit the besieged (rebel-held)...