Syria's paramilitary National Defense Forces have killed 23 displaced people in northern countryside of Hama on Tuesday, Revolution Local Coordinations said. The victims who fled war in the next-door province of Homs were killed in Om al-Khazir village. The Coordinations said they were heading...

 At least 45 people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus in Syrian regime air strikes, activists and monitoring groups said on Wednesday. Activists said regime warplanes have carried out 5 raids on Douma, Saqba and Hamouriya towns east of Damascus, leaving dozens...

A 48-hour ceasefire was declared on Wednesday to halt fighting between Syrian insurgents and the army and its Lebanese militant Hezbollah ally in the rebel-held town of Zabadani and two Shi'ite Muslim villages in Idlib province. The United Nations envoy for Syria said last month...

A Syrian military source said on Tuesday the army had retreated to new defensive lines in a region of vital strategic importance to President Bashar al-Assad, seeking to avoid losses at the hands of advancing rebels. The insurgent advance into the Sahl al-Ghab plain in...