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The Syrian military carried out an air strike on a suburb of the capital as rebels clashed with soldiers around the Damascus region on Monday, a monitoring group said. “A fighter bomber carried out a raid on Daraya as rebels and soldiers…

The Friends of Syria nations that support regime change meet in Morocco on Wednesday for the first time since the creation of a new opposition coalition seeking wider international recognition. Arab and Western states will consider two…

The Syrian military on Monday (December 10th) shelled several towns near the capital as clashes continued around Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "A fighter bomber carried out a raid on Daraya as rebels and soldiers…

Syrian rebels expect greater military help from Gulf Arab states after they announced a new command structure which aims finally to unite President Bashar al-Assad's armed opponents, rebel commanders said on Monday. Rebel fighters…

Passions aroused by the war in Syria continued to spread in Lebanon on Sunday, as four people died in clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian government. Lebanon’s National News Agency said fighting broke out in the port…

The dead include: 26 unarmed civilians (5 children) , 38 rebel fighters, 1 defected soldier and no less than 16 regular soldiers. 26 Unarmed Civilians: - In Reef Dimashq 10 were killed. 3 men and a child were killed by bombardment on…

Syrian rebel groups have chosen Brigadier Selim Idris, a former officer in President Bashar al-Assad's army, to head their new Islamist-dominated military command, opposition sources said on Saturday. Idris, whose home province of…

To the soundtrack of multiple rocket launchers and small arms fire, I met six men who the Syrian authorities told us were jihadist rebel fighters captured by the army. We were in a Ministry of Interior prison near Damascus in an area now…

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen confirmed on Monday that the military alliance is expected to deploy Patriot missiles to Turkey's border as a preventive measure against spillover from Syria’s civil war. Rasmussen told CNN’s…

Russia’s top diplomat held a hurried private discussion Thursday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the U.N. envoy for Syria about the 20-month-old civil war in the country that is Russia’s closest Middle East ally.…