At least 16 members of Syria's security forces were killed by a suicide vehicle bomber and ensuing clashes with rebels at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus on Friday, an opposition monitoring group said. Syrian state television reported the blast but did not specify a death...

In the northern city of Raqqa, the condemned – some civilians, some soldiers, shabiha or alleged Assad collaborators – are brought blindfolded and handcuffed to the city square to be shot in the head in public.  Once celebrated as one of Syria’s first fully liberated cities, Raqqa,...

Regime forces and Syrian rebels fighting for control of a small but strategic town in the country's embattled northern province of Aleppo have killed at least 20 people, most of them civilians, activists said Friday. Meanwhile, rebels killed at least 30 Syrian soldiers, including ten who...

    Saudi Arabia said on Friday it refuses to accept its rotating U.N. Security Council seat, saying the council is incapable of ending wars and resolving conflicts . “ The kingdom sees that the method and work mechanism and the double standards in the...