Syrian regime government announced it will be offering Russian as a second foreign language in schools starting with the fifth grade. The new decision was posted on Syria’s ministry of education website. Fifth graders will have the choice between Russian and French as part of...

  Infighting between Syrian rebels threatened a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, a source said, forcing doctors to hide patients as clashes flared between Islamists and members of the Free Syrian Army. "Doctors are working neutrally, treating both...

Syria’s Islamic Front, the country’s biggest rebel alliance, in a statement issued today called for protecting Immigrant Jihadists in Syria and their families as response to the ongoing battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) “Immigrant...

  Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...