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Blast near Damascus kills 16, state media say
A bomb blast Thursday near a school in a Damascus suburb killed 16 people, at least half of them women and children, the state news agency reported.
Russia acknowledges Assad losing control
Syria's most powerful ally, Russia, said for the first time Thursday that President Bashar Assad is losing control of his country and the rebels might ...
Blast at Syrian regime building in capital kills 5
Three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building Wednesday in Damascus, killing at least five people, as rebels fighting to ...
Extremists among Syrian rebels who seized base
Syrian rebels including Islamic extremists took full control of a sprawling military base Tuesday after a bloody two-day battle that killed 35 ...
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 ...
Syria's civil war spills into Lebanon, 4 dead
Syria's civil war spilled over into neighboring Lebanon once again on Sunday, with gun battles in the northern city of Tripoli between supporters and ...
Syrian rebels get new leadership in bid to unite
Rebel commanders from across Syria have joined forces under a united command they hope will increase coordination between diverse fighting groups and ...
Chemical weapons risk: Syrian missiles and shells
Growing fear that civil war in Syria could unleash the world's first use of chemical weapons in nearly three decades is based on two grim scenarios ...
Syrian rebels set sights on Damascus airport
Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad set their sights Friday on the capital's international airport in a bid to cut off the ...
With war shifting, US, Russia talk Syria's future
Diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war moved forward Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joining Russia's foreign ...
Syrian capital a maze of checkpoints, blast walls
Instead of a quick half-hour trip home from her class at Damascus University, Lama Issa says she now must maneuver through security checkpoints, army ...
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 ...
Syrian civil war spills over into Lebanon
The families of Lebanese men killed in Syria last week say their relatives were more interested in nice clothes and vacations than fighting a civil ...
Fighting surges around Syrian capital of Damascus
Syria's civil war is closing in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power in Damascus with clashes between government forces and rebels flaring around ...
UN pulling staff from Syria, violence near capital
Fighting between rebels and government forces raged near the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, forcing an inbound commercial jet to turn back while ...
Syrian warplanes strike rebels in Damascus suburbs
Syrian warplanes and artillery blasted parts of the capital Damascus and its rebellious suburbs on Sunday, part of what activists described as intense ...
Syrian Internet largely restored after blackout
Internet and telephone service were restored across much of Syria on Saturday following a two-day, nationwide communications blackout that came during ...
Lebanese fighters reported killed inside Syria
Syrian security forces killed as many as 20 Lebanese gunmen who were fighting alongside rebels in Syria on Friday, raising tensions amid mounting ...
War rips apart families, neighbors in Syria
BEIRUT — It's at night that worries over her children hit the matriarch of the Khayyat family hardest, tormenting her as she tries to sleep. Four of ...
Internet service goes out across Syria
Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was ...
Twin car bombs near Damascus kill 34
Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives packed vehicles near a cluster of commercial buildings in a suburb of Damascus Wednesday, killing at ...
Syrian warplanes bomb olive oil factory; 20 killed
Syrian warplanes bombed an olive oil factory packed with farmers Tuesday, killing at least 20 people in the latest regime strike to rip through a ...
Syrian rebels capture air base near Damascus
Syrian rebels captured a helicopter base just outside Damascus Sunday in what an activist called a "blow to the morale of the regime" near President ...
Iran criticizes Turkish request for Patriots
Iran lashed out Friday at Turkey for requesting that NATO supply it with Patriot surface-to-air missiles to deploy along the border with Syria, ...
Two powers, Qatar and Iran, try to sway Hamas
The courtship of Hamas between rivals Iran and Qatar has been one of the Middle East's intriguing subplots of the Arab Spring. The bloodshed in Gaza ...