WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fired missiles with chemical weapons at his opponents, crossing President Barack ...

THE JEBEL AL-ZAWIYA HILLS, Syria -- Like countless other Syrians fleeing their country's civil war, Sami was eager to escape the bombs and artillery s...

GENEVA -- The U.N. children's agency says 420,000 people - half of them children - need immediate help in Syria's western governorate of Homs. UNIC...

BEIRUT — Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, targeting a convoy believed to contain anti-aircraft weap...

REYHANLI, Turkey –- Ten-year-old Malik lost his left leg because of shelling. Twelve-year-old Maysa is now paralyzed and won’t be able to walk aga...

"Great man. Tall. Very Tall. Blue eyes...Dead." Tears well in young Saleh's eyes as he tells CNN about the death of his eldest brother, a fighter w...

MOSCOW -- The Russian government says it is sending two planes to Lebanon to evacuate Russians from Syria, the first such effort since the uprising ag...

A State Department cable suggests the Syrian army likely used chemical weapons during an attack in the city of Homs last month, Foreign Policy's The C...

BEIRUT -- Twin blasts ripped through a university campus in Syria's largest city on Tuesday as students were taking exams, setting cars alight, blowin...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian troops advanced in a strategic suburb of Damascus and bombarded other areas around the capital Saturday in a push to se...

MOSCOW — Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible...

BEIRUT — Russia would welcome any country's offer of safe haven for Syrian President Bashar Assad, but has no plans to make one of its own, Mosc...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin distanced himself further than ever before from his longtime ally in Syria on Thursday, saying he unde...

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Having seen its star wane in Iraq, al Qaeda has staged a comeback in neighbouring Syr...

MOSCOW — Recent hopes that the Kremlin would end its support of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad melted quickly, and analysts say Moscow ultimately...

By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad just outside Damascus on ...

BRUSSELS — The newly formed Syrian opposition coalition received backing from the European Union on Monday in a significant vote of confidence f...

DOHA, Qatar — The newly elected leader of Syria's main opposition group slammed the international community for what he called inaction, saying ...

Footage shot by a Reuters crew in the Syrian city of Harem appears to show opposition fighters gunning down an unarmed man in the street. The foot...

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Mohammed Abbas AMMAN, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fired mortars at President Bashar al-Assad's palace i...

AMMAN, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a Sunni Muslim district of the Syrian capital Damascus, killing and wound...

BEIRUT, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The international envoy for Syria fears the country could turn into a new Somalia unless its crisis is res...

BEIRUT -- Palestinian supporters and opponents of Syria's regime got swept up in intense fighting in Damascus on Monday while rival rebel groups clash...

BEIRUT — Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights on Saturday, Israel said, raising concerns violence from Syria's...

BEIRUT -- A video that appears to show a unit of Syrian rebels kicking terrified, captured soldiers and then executing them with machine guns raised c...