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Firefights and shelling rocked the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk in southern Damascus on Sunday, breaking a truce that had held since mid-February, said a group that monitors the Syrian conflict. "There was shelling of Yarmuk and fighting…

BEIRUT: Firefights and shelling rocked the Yarmouk neighborhood of southern Damascus Sunday, killing a man and breaking a weeks-old truce, said a group that monitors the Syrian conflict. “There was shelling of Yarmouk and fighting…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Spanish journalist kidnapped by militants from a breakaway al-Qaida group in Syria crossed the border into Turkey on Sunday, his newspaper reported. The news of the reporter's freedom came as his captors, fighters…

BEIRUT, LEBANON — About 3,300 people have been killed in fighting between rebel factions trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the start of the year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The small…

BEIRUT: A group linked to al Qaeda, emboldened by its recent victory over rival rebels in Syria, has imposed sweeping restrictions on personal freedoms in the northern province of Raqqa as it seeks to consolidate control over the…

BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have taken control of a highway connecting Damascus to the coast that is needed to extract hundreds of tonnes of toxic chemicals for destruction, state television said on Monday. Russia…

Saudi Arabia lashed out on Friday at Russian criticism of the kingdom’s support for the Syrian opposition, saying it was Moscow’s support for the Syrian regime that encourages President Bashar al-Assad to continue his brutality. Saudi…

  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday (February 26th) produced the highest death toll among opposition fighters, jihadists and loyalists since the start of the Syrian conflict nearly three years ago, AFP reported.…

Syrian government forces have ambushed and killed a large number of Islamist rebel fighters in the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, reports say. Syrian state media say 175 died. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

(NEWSER) – Syrian forces ambushed a group of rebels outside Damascus yesterday, killing 175 belonging to the Islamist extremist al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, according to state news agencies, per the Wall Street Journal. The Syrian…