Syrian rebels and local officials pursued talks with regime ally Russia Sunday over the fate of a key southern region facing a government offensive, a Britain-based activist group said. The Jordan-backed talks came as a tentative calm reigned over most fronts in the southern province of...

A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule Saturday as rebel lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. The southwest was an early hotbed of the uprising against...

A Jordanian official source said Friday there were confirmed reports of a ceasefire in southern Syria that would lead to "reconciliation" between the opposition and government forces. The source did not elaborate further on the reports of an agreement in the territory where Syrian...

The Syrian regime army battled rebels in an important town in southwest Syria Thursday, a media unit run by its ally Hezbollah’s war media center said, as intensifying air strikes killed dozens of people in the area. Bashar Assad has sworn to take back every inch of Syria, and...