Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels and made a symbolic visit to a town once overrun by insurgents but now mostly retaken by his army. The visit to the battered town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, and a defiant speech illustrate...

  Local activists in the city of Homs said 22 were killed and  70 people were wounded after rocket hit Al-Waer neighborhood .   The savage offensive By the Assad forces on al-waer neighborhood came after the huge explosion in Munitions depot in...

 Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, local Activists reported. The explosion occurred in the south-eastern district of Wadi al-Dhahab, which the army has taken over, the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels in a devastating 28-month-old civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and sent nearly two million fleeing abroad. Insurgents have seized large swathes of territory, but Assad's forces...