07/02/2014

BEIRUT -- A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a Syrian prison Thursday and rebels stormed in behind him, freeing hundreds of inmates as part of an offensive aimed at capturing key government symbols around the northern city…

Beirut (Alliance News) - The first group of civilians left Syria's rebel-held old city of Homs on Friday under a temporary ceasefire deal between the regime and the opposition to evacuate residents of besieged areas and let humanitarian aid…

Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said Wednesday that rebels would soon receive advanced weapons because they have been waging a two-front war against regime troops and militant extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria…

the dead : 76 civilians ( 19 children, 15 women ), 48 rebels, 14 non-Syrian ISIS, 12 ISIS, 20 NDF, 45 Regular forces, 7 unknown rebels . By province : Aleppo (33 civilians, 15 rebels ), Reef Dimashq (13 civilians, 2 rebels ),…

Idlib province : a woman from the town of Koren killed by regime's bombardment on the town this morning . Dera'a province : 2 children killed , 1 of them is from AL-Yadoda killed by barre bombs fell on the town…

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s deputy foreign minister said on Friday the government would take part in a second round of peace talks on Syria’s civil war in the Swiss city of Geneva, state media reported. The ‘Geneva 2’ peace conference,…

Experts from the European Union and eight Arab countries plus Turkey will hold a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss threats posed by foreign fighters in Syria, a source told Al Arabiya News Channel on Thursday. The source said EU…

An operation has begun to evacuate the first group of civilians from the besieged city of Homs in Syria, as fighting has paused. Six buses escorted by UN envoys and ambulances have entered a rebel-held area to pick up 200 people. Up to…