Dubai (AFP)- Al-Qaeda's leader ordered the group's Syrian affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, to end fighting with its jihadist rivals, in an audiotape posted online on Friday. Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a message to Al-Nusra chief Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, ordered that "all soldiers of the front...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Car bombs struck two small villages in the central Syrian province of Hama on Friday, killing 18 people, including 11 children, state-run television said, the latest in relentless daily violence that is ravaging Syria. The TV said the rigged vehicles...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly before Abdul Waheed Majeed, a 41-year-old British truck driver, blew himself up in an attack on a Syrian prison, he brushed aside a question in Arabic. "I'm sorry, I can't speak it," he said in a video. "My tongue bro'... it's got like a knot in...

(AFP) A total of 24 Syrians have registered to run in next month's presidential election, including incumbent President Bashar al-Assad, the Supreme Constitutional Court announced Thursday as the application deadline expired. The vote, scheduled for June 3, is expected to return...