23/02/2014

(CNN) -- Hoping to ease suffering in Syria's besieged cities, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution to boost access for humanitarian aid. All 15 Security Council member states approved the resolution, including Russian…

Saudi Arabia is allegedly engaged in talks with Pakistan to purchase anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets for the Syrian opposition, reports AFP. Anza, Pakistani made shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, are of particular interest…

Syria said Sunday it is ready to cooperate with a rare UN Security Council resolution to allow humanitarian access, so long as it respects "state sovereignty." A Saudi source, meanwhile, said Riyadh is in talks with Pakistan to provide…

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Kurdish group captured a town inSyria from Islamists fighting in Syria’s civil war on Saturday in a battle that killed 28 fighters, most of them Islamists, a monitoring group reported. If the Kurds can hold on to the…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces captured Saturday two rebel-held areas on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after days of intense fighting near a decades-old cease-fire line between Syria and Israel, state TV said.…

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian activists say Kurdish fighters have captured a northeastern town near the Iraqi border after days of combat with members of an al-Qaida breakaway group. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a…

Syrian government forces have captured two southwestern areas on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the latest of the Syrian army’s victories against foreign-backed militants. A Syrian military official said the army…

An armed Kurdish group said it had captured a town in northeast Syria from Islamist fighters on Saturday in a battle which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said had killed 28 people, most of them Islamists, Reuters reported. An…

A Kurdish group captured a town in Syria from Islamists on Saturday, in a battle in which at least 28 fighters were killed, most of them Islamists, Reutersreported, citing a monitoring group. If the Kurds can keep hold of Tal Brak, on a…

BEIRUT (AFP) -- Syria's air force staged more air raids Saturday on the key rebel-held bastion of Yabrud north of Damascus, as clashes also raged on the capital's outskirts, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human…