Two French school students who ran away to fight in Syria were back home Tuesday with some explaining to do to their bewildered parents and teachers and the police. The two boys, aged 15 and 16, flew to Turkey on January 6 with the apparent intention of crossing the border into Syria...

    On Thursday, news circulated that scores of insurgents had been killed in a failed operation in Homs city in central Syria On Friday morning, the death toll was put at 65, but it was still unclear — how and why had these men died? Rose al-Homsi...

A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 41 Palestinian refugees in besieged Yarmuk camp as a result of food and medical shortages, including women and children. "Food and medical shortages have killed at least 41 people in the past three months in Yarmuk"...

Jihadists have made advances on rebel fighters in the battle for Raqa, in northern Syria, but are on the back foot in parts of Aleppo and Idlib, activists said Friday. "In Idlib and Aleppo provinces, the (rebel) Free Syrian Army is advancing, but in Raqa the Islamic State of Iraq and...