Syrian Arab Republic

Syria's opposition fighters are increasingly using Iraqi-style roadside bombs in their war against Bashar al-Assad, most recently blowing up a...

Syrian troops on Thursday killed four students and arrested some 200 when they stormed an anti-regime protest at Aleppo University, in the north of...

Rebels killed more than 20 troops on Wednesday in the Syrian army's deadliest day of a three-week-old ceasefire deal even as UN observers said they...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday gave the US treasury authority to tighten sanctions against Syria and Iran by going after foreign firms or...

Violence erupted in two Syrian provinces on Tuesday, with a rights group reporting 10 civilians dead in an army mortar attack and 12 soldiers...

Nine people including Syrian military personnel were killed and 100 wounded on Monday in bomb blasts near security service buildings in Idlib,...

Tens of thousands protested across Syria on Friday as a deadly suicide bombing rocked the capital, killing 11 people and fuelling growing scepticism over the prospects of a UN-backed peace plan....

Kofi Annan's statement that the situation in Syria is bleak is a rare example of undiplomatic bluntness from the man in charge of what many have...

The gunmen walked into an apartment building before dawn earlier this month in the quiet Damascus suburb of Jaramana, went to the fifth floor and...

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that the deployment of 300 ceasefire monitors to Syria could begin next week despite the belief...