Syrian civil war

Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 UN peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and trapped another 81 in…

Syrian rebel rocket fire on government-controlled areas of Aleppo killed 50 people over the weekend, a monitoring group said on…

Rebels detonated 60 tonnes of explosives packed underneath a large Syrian army base, blowing a hillside hundreds of meters (yards)…

For three years, residents of Syria's Mediterranean provinces have watched from their coastal sanctuary as civil war raging further inland…

Dozens of Saudi Islamist militants have left the battlefields of Syria and Iraq for Yemen, where their experience appears to…

UN chief Ban Ki-moon withdrew a last-minute invitation to Iran to attend peace talks on Syria on Monday after the…

Half a million people across war-hit Syria have been wounded, many of them lacking access to basic healthcare and treatment,…

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday that evidence had implicated the highest levels of the Syrian government, including…

A mortar shell fired from war-torn Syria struck the outskirts of a town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Monday,…

Syria's opposition is edging towards agreeing to international peace talks in Geneva but wants approval from fighters inside the country…