Syrian rebels say they have captured Hamdan airport near the border with Iraq. The airport of Hamdan in Deir al-Zour…
France has become the first Western country to recognize Syria's opposition coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian…
Moaz al-Khatib, a leading Damascus cleric who fled Syria, has been chosen at a meeting in Qatar to head a…
Syrian opposition groups are preparing for a crucial meeting on Sunday in the Qatari capital, Doha, to discuss how to…
Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, a senior Syrian air force general, has been killed in a Damascus suburb, state television reports. Abdullah…
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN's envoy to Syria, says President Bashar al-Assad's government has agreed to abide by a ceasefire during…
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has met Syria's president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Lakhdar Brahimi, who represents the UN and…
Anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon have accused Damascus of being behind a car bomb attack that killed the head of Lebanon's…
All Syrian planes have been banned from Turkish air space, Turkey’s foreign ministry has announced. The ban follows similar restrictions…
Turkish civilian planes are no longer allowed to fly over Syria, Damascus has said, amid growing tensions between the two…
Turkish fighter jets have forced a Syrian passenger plane suspected of carrying weapons to land in Ankara. Military communications devices…
Turkey has fired into Syria for a fourth day after a Syrian mortar landed near Turkish village Akcakale, reports say.…
Turkish parliament has authorized troops to launch cross-border action against Syria, following the deadly shelling of the town of Akcakale.…
Turkey has contacted the UN and NATO after Syrian shells killed five people in Turkish town Akcakale near the border…
UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, has warned that as many as 700,000 people could have fled Syria by the end…
The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has announced that it has moved its command centre from Turkey to "liberated areas"…
Further heavy fighting took place today in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the northern city of Aleppo. Activists said government…
Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted he will still be able to work with Mitt Romney if he's elected U.S. president…
Violence is continuing in Syria, with opposition activists saying that a warplane may have killed as many as 25 people…
Lakhdar Brahimi, the new UN-Arab League envoy on Syria, has given a deeply pessimistic view of the task ahead of…
President Bashar al-Assad has said Syrian government needs more time to "win the battle" against rebel forces. In an interview…
Syrian opposition activists say scores of bodies have been found in a town near the capital, Damascus, accusing government troops…
The UK has decided to join the US in warning Syria that the use or threat of chemical weapons would…
Russia has warned against unilateral action in Syria after President Barack Obama said the US might intervene militarily if Damascus…
President Barack Obama has said the use of chemical weapons by Syria would be a "red line" that would change…