In Basra al-Sham city of southern Daraa province, an army defector was killed in an overnight ambush by regime forces, the Observatory said. In Jisr al-Shughur in northwest Idlib, a flashpoint of unrest, armed men assassinated a Baath party ...

In Basra al-Sham city of southern Daraa province, an army defector was killed in an overnight ambush by regime forces, the Observatory said. In Jisr al-Shughur in northwest Idlib, a flashpoint of unrest, armed men assassinated a Baath party official ...

In Basra al-Sham city of southern Daraa province, an army defector was killed in an overnight ambush by regime forces, the group said. In Jisr al-Shughur in northwest Idlib, a flashpoint of unrest, armed men assassinated a Baath party official ...

The al-Qaida-style terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra Li-Ahl al-Sham, or Front to Protect the Syrian People, has apparently entered the fray. Following the group's claim to the attack, alarmist media stories emerged about how rebels who oppose the ...

Whoever may have carried out this latest bombing, there can be little doubt that Salafist factions -- like Kataib Ahrar al-Sham, a lesser known militant group that has claimed responsibility for a series of roadside bombings on regime convoys--are playing ...

And a defector was ambushed and killed by regime forces in Basra al-Sham city of Daraa province in the south. In Jisr al-Shughur of northwestern Idlib province near the Turkish border, unknown gunmen assassinated a Baath party official ...

in the centre of Damascus at 6:00 on 5 May," the note said. The Front to Protect the Syrian People, or Jabhat al-Nusra Li-Ahl al-Sham, in the message said it "planted a bomb inside a military vehicle that exploded outside a building, killing at least four ...