At least nine people were killed when Syrian regime helicopters dropped explosive-filled barrels on two neighbourhoods of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported at least seven people killed in a double car...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked Russia's foreign minister on Friday to put pressure on the Syrian government to accelerate the removal of chemical weapons, which Kerry said is not happening quickly enough. Kerry met Russia's Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the Munich...

More than 20 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) have been killed in clashes with the Islamic Front in Al Raei, border town with Turkey, east countryside of Aleppo, IF sources told Zaman Alwasl. Reports say that Islamist rebels seek to take...

Syria is transferring some of its most prized weapon systems to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to US officials cited by leading US newspapers, according to  JANEs Defence Magazine . The Wall Street Journal reported on 2 January that Yakhont anti-ship missile...