A senior official in Assad’s military intelligence has been killed in clashes with rebels yesterday in the embattled city of Deir al-Zor, east Syria, activists reported. The director of Military intelligence office in Deir al-Zor was killed due to mortar shell targeted his...

  A new video posted on YouTube earlier this week appears to show a Syrian rebel fighter launching a U.S.-made anti-tank missile at what is said to be an enemy tank, raising new questions about whether Washington has begun to supply powerful weapons to groups trying to...

An image of a slain woman with a cross in her mouth purportedly taken in Syria has been exposed as a hoax, with commentators pointing out the picture was taken from a Canadian horror film. The image, which has been circulating widely on social media, was been linked to alleged...

President Bashar al-Assad has forecast that much of the fighting in the Syrian civil war will be over by the end of the year, a former Russian prime minister was quoted on Monday as saying. "This is what he told me: 'This year the active phase of military action in Syria...