Rebels and Bashar al-Assad force have reached a rare agreement to cease airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo in order to restore electricity and water supplies after ten days of outage and lack of utilities in regime- held areas, al-Qaeda-linked group...

Rebel mortar fire on government-held districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 21 people and wounded 50 on Sunday, a monitoring group said. "The fire targeted regime-held neighbourhoods, including some in the Old City where the rebels are trying to advance," the...

The Syrian civil war is gradually altering the dynamic relationship between Hezbollah and Israel. Over the past decades, this relationship morphed from an asymmetrical confrontation between a conventional army and a sectarian militia to an ongoing conflict between a state and a...

Syria maintains an ability to deploy chemical weapons, a senior Western diplomat has said, citing intelligence from Britain, France and the United States. "We have some intelligence showing, that they have not declared everything", a senior diplomat told the Reuters...