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A spike in regime air attacks and fighting has raised the death toll in Syria's war, AFP reported Thursday (February 13th). Some 5,000 people have died in just three weeks -- an average of 236 people a day, the Syrian Observatory for…

The Syrian army recaptured on Monday an Alawite village in central Hama province where rebels "massacred" civilians earlier this month, AFP reported, citing state news agency SANA. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that at…

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Sunday that his party would fight on in Syria despite the wave of car bombings targeting predominantly Shiite areas in Lebanon controlled by the group. “I will not repeat what I explained…

The leader of the Western- and Gulf Arab-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) has been sacked and replaced by a more experienced field commander. Col Abd al-Ilah al-Bashir will succeed Brig Gen Salim Idris as chief-of-staff of the FSA's Supreme…

the dead : 46 civilians ( 2 children, 5 women, 1 teenager ), 51 rebels, 18 non-Syrian ISIS, 12 ISIS, 24 NDF, 40 Regular forces, 10 unknown rebels, 4 fighters from the brigade of Ab Al-Fadel Al-Abbas , 3 Hezbollah fighter . By…

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fear of reprisals from members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has led to an increasing number of marriages between its fighters and local girls in the cities of Aleppo and Raqqa, say activists. Monzir…

The U.N.'s agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA on Saturday urged renewed access to the Yarmouk camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, a week after operations to distribute aid were halted. “We have been unable to distribute food in…

Syria has added opposition delegates at peace talks in Geneva to a “terrorist list” and seized their assets, including the house of one of them, anti-government negotiators and a diplomat said on Saturday. The opposition delegation…

BEIRUT: More than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, have been killed in Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. The pro-opposition Observatory said the period since the…

BEIRUT, Feb 15 (Reuters) - More than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, have been killed in Syria's uprising-turned-civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The pro-opposition Observatory said the…