BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed Friday to avenge the death of a senior pro-government cleric who was killed along with dozens of people in a...
ISTANBUL: Ending Syria's civil war through negotiations became an even more remote prospect Monday, as the main opposition group prepared to set up a...
ISTANBUL: The leader of the main Syrian rebel force on Monday threw his weight behind the formation of an interim government to administer rebel-held areas as...
BEIRUT: One of the highest-ranking military officers yet to abandon Syrian President Bashar Assad defected to neighboring Jordan and said in an interview...
BEIRUT: Since rebels seized the capital of Raqqa province in northern Syria from the government last week, they have posted guards at state buildings,...
BEIRUT: Syrian government airstrikes have killed at least 14 people in the northern province of Raqqa less than a week after rebels seized the area's...
YACOUBIYEH, Syria: During the battle over this hilltop village in northern Syria, many of its residents fled, leaving behind empty homes, damaged churches and...
BEIRUT: Combat raged near a historic mosque in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday while anti-government activists reported fresh clashes near a police...
BEIRUT: Syrian activists say at least 12 people, including children, have been killed in three explosions in the northern city of Aleppo. The director of the...
BEIRUT: A rural patch of north Syria has been shaken by a series of tit-for-tat, sectarian kidnappings, anti-regime activists said Saturday, highlighting how...
BEIRUT: Rebels pushed forward in their battle with the Syrian army in Damascus on Friday, clashing with regime soldiers in contested neighborhoods in the...
BEIRUT: A bombing at a bus stop near a military factory in central Syria this week killed 54 people, all civilian workers at the plant, an activist group said...
BEIRUT: Syrian government troops battled rebels in several areas outside Damascus on Sunday while regime warplanes bombed opposition-held areas around the...
BEIRUT: The death toll from two massive blasts that ravaged the campus of a Syrian university has reached 87, anti-regime activists said Wednesday. The...
BEIRUT: A government airstrike on a town in north Syria on Friday killed 14 people, mostly women and children, anti-regime activists said. The Britain-based...
BEIRUT: Russian President Vladimir Putin distanced himself further than ever from Syria's embattled leader on Thursday, suggesting that Bashar Assad's...
BEIRUT: Syrian filmmaker Joud Said was planning to attend the world premiere of his latest work at the Dubai International Film Festival when the bad news...
BEIRUT: Syria's state news agency said Thursday that a bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed 16 people, at least half of them women and...
BEIRUT: As fears grow in the West that Syrian President Bashar Assad will unleash chemical weapons as an act of desperation, NATO moved forward Thursday with...
BEIRUT: Fighting between rebels and government forces raged near the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, forcing an inbound commercial jet to turn back while...
MAARET MISREEN, Syria: A year ago, a soft-spoken sweet shop owner from this poor Syrian town got together with his little brother and eight friends to declare...
HAREM, Syria: Before the civil war, Ramiz Moussa was a middle class civil servant who processed fines for littering, illegal construction and disturbing the...
ALEPPO, Lebanon: It was long past midnight, but the rebel commander couldn't sleep until his fighters returned from the Turkish border with the latest...
BEIRUT: Fighters from a shadowy militant group with suspected links to al-Qaida joined Syrian rebels in seizing a government missile defense base in northern...