Assad's forces bombed a strategic rebel town in the country's north for the third straight day Saturday, pounding it with airstrikes that killed at least five people, activists said.   Assad's troops in recent weeks have seized the momentum in the civil...

 The nation's top military officer told a Senate panel Thursday the Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military power in Syria, where a civil war entering its third year has killed almost 93,000 people.   Amid an increasing clamor among President Bashir...

  Syria’s top opposition commander lashed out at British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, accusing him of betrayal after he scrapped plans to arm rebel fighters. In an interview with Britain’s Daily Telegraph, head of the Free Syrian Army General Salim Idriss,...

  National Defense Army, pro-Assad's militia, said 200 fighters were killed since the beginning of the offensive, reliable source told Zaman Alwasl. Assad's troops fought with rebels in Homs in a battle seen as crucial to the Assad's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held...