Rami Abdurrahman

An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported.

The Syrian military said on Dec. 12 that it has gained control of 98 percent of eastern Aleppo, previously a rebel-held enclave, reducing the rebel territory to a small sliver packed with civilians and fighters squeezed under fire.

The Syrian airstrikes on the Damascus suburb of Douma that killed at least 100 civilians Sunday was dubbed an ‘official massacre’. ‘This is an official massacre that was carried out deliberately”, said Rami Abdurrahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Clashes between members of al-Qaeda's branch in Syria and a rebel faction in the country's north believed to have been trained by the U.S. and Turkey have stopped after the rebels abandoned their headquarters, activists said Aug. 1.

Three Spanish freelance journalists who traveled to Syria to report amid the country's long-running civil war have gone missing around the embattled northern city of Aleppo, a Spanish journalism association said July 21, the latest ensnared in the world's most dangerous assignment for reporters.

Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on  Monday.
   

Islamic State insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on  Monday.
   

Syrian President Bashar Assad prayed at a Damascus mosque at the start of a major Muslim holiday on Monday amid reports of an unprecedented high death toll among his troops battling Islamic extremists.