HOSN, Syria (AP) — The Crac des Chevaliers once held off a siege by the Muslim warrior Saladin some 900 years ago, but today bears the wounds of modern warfare: heavy artillery damaged its walls, an airstrike punctured its roof and shrapnel tore through its religious artifacts....

BEIRUT (AP) — The planned evacuation of fighters from rebel-held parts of the Syrian city of Homs was delayed Saturday, activists said, though a cease-fire still was holding in the country's third-largest city. Rebels in the city agreed Friday to surrender the territory in...

BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes between Syrian government forces and opposition fighters killed 14 rebels in a flare-up overnight along a strategic corridor between Damascus and the Lebanese border, activists said Thursday. The fighting in Zabadani — a town near Damascus and the last...

Syria's air force killed at least 18 people Wednesday, including 10 children, in the latest strike on the battered city of Aleppo, as civilians continue to bear the brunt of the civil war. The air strikes came a day after at least 100 people, including some 80 civilians, died...