Tag: Syria

More than 23,000 people have been killed in violence in Syria since the outbreak of a revolt in March last year, the Britain-based Syrian...

A massive bomb blast rocked the heart of Damascus on Wednesday as pressure mounted on the regime, with world's largest pan-Islamic bloc poised to...

The Syrian army shelled rebel-held districts of commercial capital Aleppo Sunday as fighting flared anew around a southwestern neighbourhood that rebel fighters had quit...

The Syrian army shelled rebel-held districts of commercial capital Aleppo Sunday as fighting flared anew around a southwestern neighbourhood that rebel fighters had quit...

Fresh sanctions slapped by the United States are meant to “expose and disrupt” links between Iran, Lebanon’s armed Hezbollah movement and Syria, US Secretary...

The Syrian army shelled the Salaheddin district of Aleppo on Saturday in its push to drive out rebels, as gunfire and bomb blasts rang...

Syrian rebels vowed to fight on in Aleppo a day after being driven out of a key district under heavy shellfire, which was targeting...

Iran on Thursday hosted a 29-nation conference on Syria with the aim of stopping bloodshed there and forging a role for Tehran as peace-broker...

President Bashar al-Assad has appointed Wael al-Halqi as Syria’s new premier, state television reported on Thursday, after his predecessor defected to join a rebellion....

President Bashar al-Assad has appointed Wael al-Halqi, former health minister, as Syria's new premier, state television reported on Thursday. "The president has signed Decree 298,...

Syria's army, locked in a fierce battle for control of Aleppo, pounded rebel-held areas of the commercial capital on Thursday, rights activists reported. An...

Amnesty International expresssed alarm about the plight of civilians around Aleppo, saying satellite images show intensifying use of heavy weapons near residential areas of...

Fierce fighting rocked the heart of Syria's commercial capital Aleppo early on Tuesday as troops shelled rebel-held districts in the east of the key...

A bomb blast rocked the headquarters of Syrian state television in the heart of Damascus on Monday wounding several people, Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Turkey next Saturday for talks on the conflict in Syria, a State Department spokeswoman said. "Clinton...

Rebel-held quarters of Syria’s Aleppo came under heavy bombardment by regime forces on Saturday, as a senior security official said the real battle for...

Iran on Friday blamed "interfering countries" for making Kofi Annan's mission fail in Syria, and implied it could now be among those taking "a...