THE SYRIAN STATE NEWS MEDIA REPORTED REBEL SHELLING IN SEVERAL CITIES - DAMASCUS, ALEPPO, HAMA AND DARAA - BUT DID NOT SAY WHETHER THERE WERE CASUALTIES.
On Saturday, airstrikes hit Idlib, Aleppo and the Damascus suburb of Douma...
IN PICTURES AMAZING IMAGES AS NIAGARA FALLS FREEZES OVER
While the Islamic State's provocations draw pronounced reactions, however, the less-choreographed slaughter that has killed, for instance, more than 200,000 Syrians fades to the background...
ASSAD REMAIN CONVINCED THAT, AS SYRIAN OFFICIALS HAVE LONG PREDICTED, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL EVENTUALLY QUIETLY SEEK HIS GOVERNMENT'S INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION AGAINST ISIS.
Syrian insurgents are stronger near ISIS positions further west in Aleppo Province...
DAMAGED BUILDINGS IN THE DOUMA AREA OF DAMASCUS
ITS DEFENCE MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, BRIG GEN AHMED AL-ASSIRI, SAID ITS DECISION TO SEND GROUND TROOPS TO SYRIA WAS "IRREVERSIBLE".
"Saudi Arabia will not step back from its offer to send ground troops to Syria as part of an International Coalition operation," Mohammed al-Yahya, a London-based Saudi analyst said...
SYRIAN STATE NEWS MEDIA DID NOT MENTION THE ATTACK, ALTHOUGH GOVERNMENT FORCES HAVE LONG BOMBED OPPOSITION AREAS TO TRY TO UNDERCUT LOCAL SUPPORT FOR THE REBELS.
The war in Syria, which began as a popular uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, has grown increasingly complicated...
THE UN ESTIMATES THAT 250,000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING IN SYRIA.
Douma has been subjected to a number of airstrikes reportedly carried out by forces working with the Assad regime, leaving much of the area in ruins...
ASSAD REMAIN CONVINCED THAT, AS SYRIAN OFFICIALS HAVE LONG PREDICTED, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL EVENTUALLY QUIETLY SEEK HIS GOVERNMENT'S INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION AGAINST ISIS.
Syrian insurgents are stronger near ISIS positions further west in Aleppo Province...
A MONITORING GROUP SAID SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT THAT ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN SYRIA FIGHTING APPEARED TO HAVE STOPPED, WITH ISOLATED INCIDENTS OF FIRE IN SOME AREAS.
Syria fighting largely halts as cessation begins monitoring groups...
SYRIA ARMY BREAKS THROUGH YEAR-LONG ISIS SIEGE OF KEY ALEPPO AIR BASE
Kweyris military base east of Aleppo may now be used by Russian planes in their battle against rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad, experts say...
WITNESSES SAW MODERN RUSSIAN WARPLANES - AS DISTINCT FROM SYRIAN REGIME AIRCRAFT - CARRY OUT THE ATTACK, ACCORDING TO THE PROGRAMME'S SYRIAN FIELD OFFICER IN HAZANO.
Russian bombs damage British-funded bakery designed to help 18,000 Syrians...
THAT IS THE HARROWING PICTURE PAINTED BY THE LATEST REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON THE WAR IN SYRIA.
Those have been carried out mainly by Syrian government forces, but lately also by Russian military planes, according to antigovernment activists on the ground...
AID AGENCIES SAID SUPPLIES ALSO REACHED DOUMA ON FRIDAY - THE FIRST UN DELIVERY SINCE AUTUMN 2013, ACCORDING TO THE SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (SOHR), A BRITAIN-BASED MONITORING GROUP.
But the UN's humanitarian agency was still awaiting Syria's approval to deliver aid to two more of Syria's besieged areas: Al-Waer in Homs province and Zabadani in rural Damascus...
LAST WEEK, GOVERNMENT FORCES EVACUATED NEARLY 4,000 PEOPLE FROM THE TOWN OF DOUMA, JUST NORTH OF DAMASCUS, AND A RARE DELIVERY OF UNITED NATIONS AID WAS ALLOWED TO ENTER THE AREA.
Several opposition groups have said they would not attend the talks organized by Russia, the most powerful ally of the Syrian government...
CHARLOTTE POLICE TWEETED THAT FOUR OFFICERS WERE HURT DURING THE SECOND NIGHT OF UNREST WEDNESDAY NIGHT, BUT SAID NONE OF THE INJURIES WERE CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING.
Unrest flares anew in U.S. city after police shooting...
THE OFFENSIVE COMES AT A CRUCIAL AND VOLATILE TIME FOR THE REBEL GROUPS THAT BRAND THEMSELVES AS THE FREE SYRIAN ARMY AND INCLUDE MANY ARMY DEFECTORS LIKE MR. SOMAA.
He is originally from the town of Manbij, which the Kurdish militias recently seized from ISIS -- with American air support...
LEDAY, WHO GREW UP IN BATON ROUGE AND NOW LIVES IN MARIETTA, GEORGIA, PUBLISHED THE FOOTAGE FOR THE WOMAN WHO FILMED THE VIDEO FEARED RETALIATION FROM POLICE.
Soon after, he rushed to the Triple S. Food Mart in Baton Rouge where two police officers had shot and killed Alton Sterling at point blank range...
FIRST BLACK MISS ALA. ON LEAVE FROM TV JOB AFTER CALLING DALLAS COP-KILLER A 'MARTYR'
James, who was crowned Miss Alabama in 1993, told WPMI-TV that she has received multiple death threats since posting the Facebook live video on Sunday...