Two large explosions shook Syria's southern city of Daraa today, causing multiple casualties and heavy material damage, the country's state-run news agency and activists said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a stark warning Thursday to Western nations that may be thinking of intervening militarily in the bloody conflict that has devastated the country.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has vowed defiantly to “live and die” in Syria.

A judge has been killed in a bombing in a residential district of Damascus, Syrian state media said.

Gunmen killed the brother of Syria's parliament speaker as he drove to work in Damascus on today, the state-run news agency reported, as the international envoy for Syria warned the country could become another Somalia.

The conflict is likely to be won on the battlefield, not at the negotiating table

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A car bomb exploded near a major hotel in the Syrian capital, Damascus, today, wounding several people.

Syrian rebels launched a dawn assault today on a strategic airbase in the north of the country, trying to disrupt strikes by warplanes and helicopters that pound rebel-held towns and give the regime of President Bashar Assad a major edge in the civil war.

Video showing apparent war crime raises questions about oppposition groups

Syrian warplanes pounded opposition strongholds around Damascus and in the north Wednesday as President Bashar Assad's forces intensified airstrikes following the failure of a U.N.-backed cease-fire, activists said.

We know that America has some sway in the country. Surely they should exert pressure to help these people

Syrian state television said today that an air force general was assassinated in a Damascus suburb, the latest in a string of attacks on high-level figures from President Bashar al-Assad's administration.

Longest-serving Wren heads ashore