Syrian rebels based in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta suburbs have fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the capital as scores of pro-regime supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria, AP reported An Associated Press reporter was outside the embassy on...

Amnesty International on Tuesday accused a Syrian Kurdish militia supported by the United States of committing war crimes by driving out thousands of non-Kurdish civilians and demolishing their homes. The London-based rights watchdog documented cases in more than a dozen...

The head of Syria's Nusra Front, an offshoot of al Qaeda, urged insurgents on Monday to escalate attacks on the strongholds of President Bashar al Assad's minority Alawite sect in retaliation for what he said was the indiscriminate killing of Sunni Muslims by invading Russians....

US-led coalition forces have parachuted ammunition to rebels fighting Islamic State jihadists in northern Syria, a US military spokesman said Monday. The move follows the Pentagon's announcement last week that it would pause a program to train moderate rebels, and instead focus efforts...