Two mortar rounds hit an area near Umayyad square in the heart of Damascus on Sunday, state media said, reporting only material damage. The area houses the state television complex, the Assad Library and the army general command. Also on Sunday, more...

Rebels have captured large parts of a Syrian police academy near Aleppo, after a fierce battle resulting in heavy loss of life, activists say.Video emerged on Saturday apparently showing rebels breaking into the sprawling Khan al-Assal compound.Almost 200 more...

LONDON: Britain can't afford to "sit on the sidelines" and watch the slaughter continue in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague said. He refused to rule out the prospect that Britain could arm the Syrian rebels, despite a warning more...

Following rebel gains, the leader of the Syrian opposition made his first visit Sunday to areas near the embattled northern city of Aleppo as fighters trying to oust President Bashar Assad captured a police academy and a more...

U.S. Secretary John Kerry is in Saudi Arabia for talks with Saudi and Gulf Arab officials expected to focus on the crisis in Syria and fears about Iran's nuclear program. Kerry was meeting in Riyadh Monday with the foreign more...

Homs Province: Violent clashes have been going on since today morning, between regime forces and fighters from several rebel battalions, due to an attack regime forces carried out on the Khaldiya neighbourhood and the old neighboruhoods of Homs. In Reef more...

Aleppo Province: A fighter group assassinated the leader of the Usud al-Sunna battalion in the Ansari neighbourhood of Aleppo city, by an ambush they'd planned for him in the Mashhad roundabout, Saturday night. Another group assassinated a peaceful activist, whom more...

Reef Dimashq Province: The city of Zamalka was bombarded by warplanes, leading to smoke rising from the city. While the cities of al-Ghuta al-Sharqiya witnessed warplanes hovering over them. Regime forces' bombardment has been renewed on the Daraya city, along more...

Damascus Province: A woman was killed and 6 others were injured by gunfire that accompanied clashes between rebel fighters and regime forces, at the Yarmuk camp entrance. Several areas in the Southern neighbourhoods of Damascus and Jobar were bombarded by more...

The dead: 44 civilians (including 4 children), 76 rebels, 32 unidentified rebels, 108 regular forces, 1 defected officer.By province: Der'a (12 rebels, 10 civilians). 6 civilians from the same family, including a woman, were killed by bombardment on the village more...

Damascus province: A rebel battalion executed 2 civilians in the Mukhayam al-Yarmouk (Yarmouk camp). The men were hanged from trees in the Filastin round point of al-Yarmouk camp. Rebels attempted to justify this by accusing the men of coordinating with more...

The dead include: 45 unarmed civilians, 42 rebel fighters, 2 defected soldiers, 28 unidentified rebel fighters and more than 49 regular soldiers. By province: Aleppo (7 civilians and 8 rebel fighters), Reef Dimashq (6 civilians and 6 rebel fighters), al-Raqqa more...

Syria and close ally Iran lashed out at the United States on Saturday for providing aid to Syrian rebels, the latest salvo aimed at depicting the West as resisting peace talks to end the almost two-year conflict. Syrian Foreign more...

Iran and Syria condemned a U.S. plan to assist rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad on Saturday and signaled the Syrian leader intends to stay in power at least until 2014 presidential elections. The remarks came against more...

The new US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Cairo to explain to the leaders there the decision by the Rome conference of The Friends of Syria to provide non-military support to the Syrian rebels. Mr more...