Syrian rebel fighters armed with anti-tank missiles pushed toward President Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha on Monday, the second day of a surprise offensive in the heartland of his minority Alawite sect, opposition activists said. Forces comprising 10 mainly Islamist brigades,...

  New elected National Coalition President will attend Geneva 2 with preconditions, saying my Interview with the New York Time was out of context.  Ahmed Jarba has denied what 'New York Times' reported about participation in the peace conference in Geneva ''with...

Activists and local opposition groups in Syria accused regime forces for using poisonous form of gas in the city of Douma and Adra, outskirts of Damascus. According to the local media offices, Syrian army has launched a series of attacks on these two big cities on Monday. More than 400...

Syria's crisis will only be solved by stamping out "terror", President Bashar al-Assad said, in reference to rebels fighting his regime. In a rare speech on Syrian state television, Assad also dismissed the political opposition to his regime as a "failure" that could play no...