Syrian Opposition Claims ‘New Massacre’ in Homs | Says 44 slain in ‘reprisal killings’

A senior official in Syria's Oil Ministry announced in a video message on Thursday that he was abandoning the regime of Bashar al-Assad, in what appeared to be the highest-level defection of a government official since the start of the violence in Syria. Abdu...

Special operations forces from the U.S. and its allies have been on the ground in Syria since at least December, according to confidential emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that were released by WikiLeaks. An analyst from Stratfor claimed in December...

The Obama administration has retreated from its initial refusal to stay out of the conflict in Syria by agreeing this week to provide direct humanitarian and communications assistance to the Syrian opposition. While the change in policy did not go as far as providing...