The military commander of Jund al-Islam, Faisal Dawood Okla, has been killed by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the besieged village of al-Zara in Homs province, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. Okla escaped from the Lebanese...

The evacuation of civilians from Syria's Homs city has halted, with no new efforts to extend a truce and the governor saying Sunday "armed groups" prevented operations a day earlier. In a statement, Talal Barazi said "the evacuation of civilians was not carried...

Abu Huraira is haunted by memories of shells falling from the sky, ripping to pieces people trying to bury their loved ones in a Syrian graveyard. He is unnerved by the mental images of mutilated bodies, and of bones laid bare in his rebel comrades' deep wounds. But the...

The second round of Syria peace talks has got off to a stormy start against a backdrop of continued rescue of civilians from the beseiged city of Homs. Members of Syria's government and opposition delegations blamed each other in Geneva on Monday for mortar attacks on convoys bringing...