Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad launched a military offensive on Saturday against rebel-held areas of Homs, the country's third-largest city and a centre of the two-year-old uprising against his rule. Activists said jets and mortars pounded rebel territory and soldiers attacked the...

Anti-Regime protesters in a small Syrian town have broadcast a message of solidarity with South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, whose is battling for his life in a Pretoria hospital. Marching on Friday in the northwestern town of Hass, near Syria's border with...

  The main road connects the main hotspots of Homs has turned to be the Death road, last week, by Assad's snipers. Zaman Alwasl reporter said. ''Snipers are planted everywhere on the road they are targeting everybody'', the reporter said.  ...

The bodies of 16 men who died under torture at the hands of Syria’s feared security forces have been handed to their families, a monitoring group said early Friday. “We have received information of the death under torture at the hands of regime forces of 16 men from Harasta,” said the...