At least 16 members of Syria's security forces were killed by a suicide vehicle bomber and ensuing clashes with rebels at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus on Friday, an opposition monitoring group said. Syrian state television reported the blast but did not specify a death...

In the northern city of Raqqa, the condemned – some civilians, some soldiers, shabiha or alleged Assad collaborators – are brought blindfolded and handcuffed to the city square to be shot in the head in public.  Once celebrated as one of Syria’s first fully liberated cities, Raqqa,...

  While the children of Ein Tarma town in Damascus suburbs were playing and celebrating the major Muslims' holiday Eid al-Adha, Bashar al-Assad warplanes hit the pubic square of the city, killing 3 children at least . Pro-Assad's social media pages said...

 An activist group says Syrian warplanes have been bombing the suburbs of Damascus while rebels have fired mortar shells at the capital on the first day of a major Muslim holiday. Tuesday’s fighting shows how entrenched both sides in Syria’s civil war have become. Earlier...