Backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, Syrian troops unleashed some of the civil war's heaviest bombardments on the central city of Homs on Friday, pounding opposition-held areas with artillery and airstrikes for the sixth straight day, activists said.  In...

National Coalition renewed the pleas to the international community to take action to protect civilians in the embattled city of Homs. The Syrian National Coalition on Friday appealed to the United Nations and Western countries that have supported the opposition in Syria's civil...

  National Coalition accused the Assad regime by targeting the state institutions in the city of Homs, particularly the Land Registry building in Homs.   The coalition considered In a statement, that such actions came alongside with regime's attempts to change the...

 Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee  Syria .  Iraq ,  Jordan , and Turkey  have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of...