Hezbollah, Syria government forces push for advance in Qusair

Activists say forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have unleashed their heaviest artillery barrage in a week to dislodge rebels from a strategic western town. Pro-Assad troops, including fighters from the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, launched an ...

Syria's government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Moscow. While this development might seem at first glance to be a step toward ending the civil war, strong skepticism persists on both sides. Doubting that Damascus ...

A Syrian family at a refugee camp in Kilis is seen receiving aid from the Helping Hands Association during Eid al-Adha in this file photo. (Photo: Today's Zaman, Turgut Engin) Over 300,000 Syrian refugees taking shelter in Turkey will be able to ...

BAGHDAD -- The flow of refugees crossing from Syria into Jordan has all but stopped in the last six days amid heavy fighting in the area and claims by Syrians that Jordanian border guards are preventing them from entering. The Jordanian foreign ...

Firefights in northern Lebanon between Sunni Muslims and Alawites -- the Shiite offshoot sect to which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad belongs -- have killed 28 people, a security source said today. Rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machineguns have all ...

Syrian National Coalition President Mouaz al-Khatib arrives for a Syrian opposition groups meeting in İstanbul. (Photo: EPA, Bülent Kılıç) 24 May 2013 /TODAY'S ZAMAN WITH REUTERS, İSTANBUL Members of the National Coalition for Syrian ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition ...

A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its “courage” and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in ...

TEHRAN, May 24 (UPI) -- Western allies backing opponents of Assad have expressed concern about the role that Hezbollah fighters are playing in the Syrian civil war. U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said Hezbollah's role in the Syrian ...