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Fighters of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar Assad's forces.
The Free Syrian Army has pledged to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse.
Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it.
Syrian troops have taken full control of a town near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan, says an activist group.
In his first response to Israel's weekend airstrikes, President Bashar Assad says Syria is capable of facing Israel.
Syria's regime and rebels fighting to overthrow it have killed, arbitrarily arrested and tortured scores of journalists, rights group Amnesty International says.
Regime forces have been tightening the noose on rebels holed up in a key area of the central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights watchdog says.
Syrian state TV and residents of Damascus say a powerful explosion has hit the country's capital.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has escaped an assassination bid, surviving a blast that targeted his convoy in Damascus, Syrian state television has reported.
Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power, lawmakers have warned.
Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power, lawmakers have warned.
Syrian government troops have captured a strategic town near Damascus, says state media and activists.
More than a dozen people have been killed in clashes between residents and fighters from the Seleka rebel coalition that seized power in CAR last month, sources say.
The UN's children’s agency has charged that armed movements in the Central African Republic are recruiting more children, including as soldiers.
The head of Syria's jihadist al-Nusra Front has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.
