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The Obama administration laid the groundwork for unilateral military action in Syria, a shift officials said reflected the U.K.'s abrupt decision not to participate and concerns that President Bashar al-Assad was using the delayed Western…

Homs Province: Violent clashes have been going on since today morning, between regime forces and fighters from several rebel battalions, due to an attack regime forces carried out on the Khaldiya neighbourhood and the old…

Aleppo Province: A fighter group assassinated the leader of the Usud al-Sunna battalion in the Ansari neighbourhood of Aleppo city, by an ambush they'd planned for him in the Mashhad roundabout, Saturday night. Another group assassinated a…

Reef Dimashq Province: The city of Zamalka was bombarded by warplanes, leading to smoke rising from the city. While the cities of al-Ghuta al-Sharqiya witnessed warplanes hovering over them. Regime forces' bombardment has been renewed on…

Damascus Province: A woman was killed and 6 others were injured by gunfire that accompanied clashes between rebel fighters and regime forces, at the Yarmuk camp entrance. Several areas in the Southern neighbourhoods of Damascus and Jobar…

The dead: 44 civilians (including 4 children), 76 rebels, 32 unidentified rebels, 108 regular forces, 1 defected officer.By province: Der'a (12 rebels, 10 civilians). 6 civilians from the same family, including a woman, were killed by…

Damascus province: A rebel battalion executed 2 civilians in the Mukhayam al-Yarmouk (Yarmouk camp). The men were hanged from trees in the Filastin round point of al-Yarmouk camp. Rebels attempted to justify this by accusing the men of…

The dead include: 45 unarmed civilians, 42 rebel fighters, 2 defected soldiers, 28 unidentified rebel fighters and more than 49 regular soldiers. By province: Aleppo (7 civilians and 8 rebel fighters), Reef Dimashq (6 civilians and 6 rebel…

The food rations and medical supplies that Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday would be provided to the Free Syrian Army mark the first time that the United States has publicly committed itself to sending nonlethal aid to the…

The US president and his Russian counterpart have expressed agreement in a telephone call on "the need to advance a political transition" and seek "new initiatives" to end the violence in Syria as soon as possible, the White House has…