Here's a list of key fighting groups inside Syria: — SYRIAN GOVERNMENT — Despite major defections early in the conflict and the loss of significant territory to rebels, the Syrian military remains a potent force against an outgunned opposition. President Bashar Assad's inner circle...

  Fierce clashes are taking place in northern Aleppo between rebels and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local source say to Zaman Alwasl. ISIL has seized village of Handarat near Azaz, sources said. Since 72 hours Islamist rebels have engaed in violent...

Syria's Aleppo international airport, closed for a year because of fighting, reopened Wednesday with the landing of a civilian aircraft, state media reported. "A first airplane landed at Aleppo's international airport, after the Syrian army secured the outskirts," state...

  A government air strike killed 10 people in a rebel-held neighborhood of Syria’s main northern city Aleppo on Tuesday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that some fighters of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and The...