
Aleppo blast, car bombs cap bloody Syria week
A rocket slammed into a building in Syria's northern city of Aleppo and two suicide bombers struck near a mosque in the south Friday, capping a ...

Syrian army intensifies offensive against rebels
Syrian troops stepped up an offensive against rebels in the north on Wednesday, following explosions targeting security forces and a university campus ...

Syrian army advances in strategic Damascus suburb
Syrian troops advanced in a strategic suburb of Damascus and bombarded other areas around the capital Saturday in a push to secure President Bashar ...

Syrian forces bombard rebel areas near capital
Syrian government warplanes and artillery pounded restive suburbs of Damascus on Friday and anti-regime activists said a car bomb targeted an ...
Jordan arrests 4 Syrian soldiers near border
Jordan's security forces say the military has arrested four unarmed Syrian soldiers found in the zone between the two countries' borders. A security ...

Syrian minister leaves Beirut for fear of arrest
Syria's wounded interior minister cut short his treatment at a Beirut hospital Wednesday and returned home for fear of being arrested by Lebanese ...

New Syria rebel chief describes clandestine life
The new Syrian rebel chief said he's been moving between safe houses since taking up command, even changing quarters twice in one night when he feared ...

In Syrian rebel training, motivation trumps skills
Sixteen grunting rebel fighters dropped down for pushups in a rain-slick backyard, practiced storming a house from the cover of an olive grove, and ...

Syrian vice president says army can't win
Syria's vice president has acknowledged that the army cannot defeat the rebel forces trying to topple the regime and called for a negotiated ...

Syrian rebels capture parts of army base in north
Rebels captured part of a sprawling Syrian army base outside the embattled northern city of Aleppo, tightening the opposition's grip on areas close ...

NATO moves toward deployment on Syria border
As fears grow in the West that Syrian President Bashar Assad will unleash chemical weapons as an act of desperation, NATO moved forward Thursday with ...

US weighing military options if Syria uses WMD
The White House and its allies are weighing military options to secure Syria's chemical and biological weapons, after U.S. intelligence reports show ...