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Syrian troops recapture 5 strategic towns near Lebanese borders

Syrian troops reseized five towns in central strategic Homs province near the borders with Lebanon a...

Syria activists say 20 killed in army airstrikes

Syrian activists say government airstrikes killed at least 20 people as the army presses ahead with ...

Syria regime opens attack on flashpoint Homs neighbourhood

Syrian forces on Monday fired heavy machine guns and launched at least one airstrike on a neighbourh...

Activists say dozens killed in central Syria

Syrian activists say government troops have killed dozens of people in the central city of Homs.

‘Syria used chemical weapons in Homs last month’

The Syrian Army likely used chemical weapons during an attack in the city of Homs last month, a Stat...

Assad regime reclaims Homs district

The Assad regime after days of struggle on Sunday managed to get back the captured territory of Homs...

Defected Syrian Gen accuses Assad regime of murder

He becomes the latest in a string of leading military advisers to abandon the government and join th...

At least 15 killed in Syrian blast

At least 15 people died and 24 were injured in a powerful blast in the Syrian city of Homs, the stat...

Syrian government accuses rebels of mass killing

An online video showed more than a dozen bloodied corpses, some of them piled atop each other and in...

It’s up to Syrians to decide Assad’s fate: US

The US said it is only providing humanitarian aid and non-lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition...

`No ground for Syria intervention`

Arab League Deputy Secretary General Ahmed Ben Helli urged Russia to stop military-technical coopera...

Syrian civilians should be evacuated from Homs: UN

Norwegian General Robert Mood admitted that attempts to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of...

Syria: Violence in Homs; toll rises to 80

Homs has come under heavy attack and activists warned that civilians are trapped without access to e...

UN observers in Syria attacked by crowds, shot at

UN observers` vehicles came under fire as they drove away from Haffa, but the source of the gunfire ...

UN concerned over Syria violence escalation

As per UN estimates, over 10,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against Bashar ...

Syrian forces attack Homs, Annan concerned

President Bashar al-Assad`s forces used artillery, helicopter gunships, mortars, rockets to attack t...

Syrian troops renew shelling of Homs; 38 killed

Regime forces also unleashed a new round of heavy shelling and sent reinforcements to a mountainous ...

Syrian student killed in homeland: US University

Bassel Al Shahade was a Fulbright Scholar pursuing a master of fine arts in film degree at Syracuse ...

Syria violence: Over 90 killed including 32 children

Homs has been among the hardest hit provinces in a government crackdown since the uprising against A...

UN Syria observers visit Homs neighbourhood

The team in Homs is part of an advance team of 15 UN monitors in Syria who are trying to salvage a p...

Homs calm as UN team visits: Syrian activists

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Homs is peaceful for the first time in mo...

‘Syrian troops fire on protesters’

Syrian troops fired bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters on Friday, activists sa...

Syrian troops clash with rebels, 1 dead

The renewed violence comes as the international community struggles to salvage a week-old ceasefire ...

Assad’s regime ‘stopping women from fleeing Syria’

Tens of thousands of refugees are continuing to try to leave, despite the current supposed ceasefire...

Despite truce, Syria troops attack Homs: Activists

Activists say Syrian government forces are pounding a rebel stronghold with mortar fire, violating w...

Shelling, shaky truce challenge UN few in Syria

Activists trying to topple Assad`s reported four people killed in the city of Idlib in a gunbattle b...

Shelling resumes in Syria’s Homs: Activists

The reported shelling is threatening the cease-fire which President Assad and rebels fighting to top...

Shelling in Homs; Syrian ceasefire in tatters?

The shelling comes two days after a ceasefire brokered by international envoy Kofi Annan went into e...

Syrian troops shell central city of Homs

Syrian activists say troops are shelling rebel-held neighbourhoods in the central city of Homs with ...

Syrian tanks enter northern town, Homs pounded again

The UN-Arab League peace envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan, flew to Moscow, seeking Russian backing for hi...

`Near-naked woman pic on Assad’s e-mail account`

The undated picture showed the woman, clad only in white lingerie, pressing herself against a wall.

‘Syria’s stability is in India`s interest’

The uprising that began in Syria a year ago seems far from over.

‘Syrian uprising just like London riots’

Syrian President`s father-in-law has questioned why the British PM did not deploy troops as Bashar a...

Army gains ground on anniversary of Syria uprising

The Syrian President confidently predicted at the start of 2011 that his country was immune from the...

`Assad`s wife was shopping when Syrians were dying`

The Guardian said it had made extensive efforts to authenticate the e-mails by checking their conten...

"Grave, appalling" reports from Syria: Kofi Annan

A popular uprising against four decades of Assad family rule erupted a year ago and has become incre...

Syrian forces kill 54 ahead of Annan peace mission

Syrian forces killed at least 54 people as they sought to quell demonstrations against Prez before a...

Red Cross reaches Homs, blocked from worst-hit area

The govt was still blocking ICRC access to the Baba Amr, where civilians remain trapped in freezing ...

`Iran increasing lethal aid to Syrian regime`

The US intelligence assessments are in line with recent reports by Syrian rebels, who say Iran`s inv...

Red Cross handing out aid in Syria`s Homs

Red Cross teams began handing out food and blankets in central Homs province on Sunday after days of...

Syrian forces pound Homs again, block aid convoy

Syrian forces bombarded parts of the shattered city of Homs on Saturday.

Red Cross tells Syria: let Homs aid through

The Red Cross told Syria it was unacceptable that its aid convoy had been prevented from entering a ...

Two foreign journalists buried in Syria as 2 flee

Two Western journalists killed in the Syrian city of Homs last week have been buried in the embatt...

Red Cross says aid convoy arrives in Syria`s Homs

A Red Cross convoy carrying life-saving aid has reached the Syrian city of Homs and is about to ente...

Syrian rebels leave embattled Homs stronghold

Most Syrian rebels pulled out of Homs on Thursday after a 26-day siege by President Bashar al-Assad`...

“Pray for us” say Syria rebels as Army closes in

A Syrian official says security forces are advancing on the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr in t...

Syrian military pounds rebel areas

Syrian forces shelled an opposition stronghold in Hama province, killing 20 people, on Tuesday and h...

Syria approves new constitution amid bloodshed

Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs as President Bashar al-Assad`s government announc...

Syria approves new Constitution amid bloodshed

Syrian Interior Ministry said the reformed Constitution, which could keep Assad in power until 2028,...

Syria: `US scribe died trying to get her shoes`

American war correspondent Marie Colvin had followed the local custom of removing footwear before en...

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