BEIRUT: Security forces seized three members of Syria's government-sanctioned opposition shortly after they returned from an official trip to China, a...
BEIRUT: Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad pounded southern suburbs of the Syrian capital to flush out rebels on Sunday, residents said, as the...
ANKARA/BAB AL-SALAMEH, Syria: Syria’s refugee exodus is accelerating and up to 200,000 people could settle in Turkey alone if the conflict worsens, the...
ALEPPO, Syria: Ruled successively by Hittites, Greeks, Romans and Ottomans, Aleppo's ancient city has survived violent change over thousands of years. But...
AMMAN/ALEPPO: A Syrian military helicopter crashed in flames under rebel fire in Damascus on Monday, and a government warplane fired rockets at targets on the...
ALEPPO: Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar Assad's army of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the capital that government...
ALEPPO, Syria: Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army on Sunday of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the...
AZAZ, Syria: The Syrian driver who took Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto into the wartorn city of Aleppo said she had been shot dead by militiamen loyal to...
ALEPPO, Syria: “Bomb, bomb, bomb!” shouted the rebel fighters in the midst of battle on the streets of Aleppo. Everyone crouched down and held...
AZAZ: Syrian rebel fighters speak proudly of the day forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fled in their tanks from the northern town of Azaz as civilians...
BEIRUT: United Nations observers found blood, burned homes and signs of artillery fire in the Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday but were unable to confirm...
BEIRUT: U.N. observers entered the central Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday, two days after activists said about 220 people had been killed there by...
BEIRUT: Kofi Annan arrived in Damascus on Sunday evening for talks with President Bashar al-Assad, his spokesman said, a day after the international peace...
BEIRUT: In what would be the most high-profile defection from the inner circle of the Syrian leadership, Manaf Tlas, a friend of President Bashar al-Assad and...
BEIRUT: Syrian troops pushed into the rebel-held northern town of Khan Sheikhoun on Thursday, activists said, as President Bashar Assad said he would have...
BEIRUT: Syrian forces swept through the corpse-strewn streets of nearly-deserted opposition districts on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday, as the...
BEIRUT: Gunmen stormed a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters on Wednesday, bombing buildings and shooting dead three employees, state media said, in...
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday his country was in a state of war and ordered his newly appointed government to direct all its...
BEIRUT/ANKARA: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Syria to beware the wrath of Turkey after Friday's shooting down of a warplane and said he had given...
ANKARA/BEIRUT: Turkey said on Monday Syrian forces had fired towards a Turkish military transport plane involved in a search for an F-4 reconnaissance jet...
BEIRUT: The future of a U.N. monitoring mission in Syria hangs in the balance after the observers halted work following several attacks on their convoys...
PARIS/BEIRUT: France will propose giving the United Nations the power to enforce Kofi Annan's Syrian peace plan, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on...
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad named a Baath Party stalwart to form a new government on Wednesday, signalling no political concessions to a...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels killed at least 80 army soldiers at the weekend, an opposition watchdog said on Monday, in a surge of attacks that followed their threat...
BEIRUT: Syrian oil minister Sufian Alao said on Wednesday a Venezuelan oil tanker with 35,000 tonnes of diesel had docked in Syria a day earlier and another...