Syrian civil war News

Damascus - There are many foreign fighters joining battle in Syria. Many are part of the rebel forces against Assad but some are supporting Assad. Most fighting for Assad are Shias and for the rebels Sunnis, reflecting the sectarian nature of the conflict.

Cited by The Telegraph, British PM David Cameron said he had "learnt the lessons of Iraq" when world leaders at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland set out an agreed blueprint for the future of Syria.

According to a poll released from the Pew Research Center, 70 percent of Americans are opposed to plans to arm Syrian rebels.

Claiming to have found evidence of chemical weapon being used in Syria civil war, the US proposes to arm the rebels in Jordan and imposing no-fly zone stretching up to 25 miles into Syria, enforced using aircraft from Jordan – costing $50 million a day

In the wake of the White House announcement that the Syrian government has definitively used chemical weapons against the rebels, Israel's defense minister claimed Israeli intervention would be counter-productive.

Syria has called the US claim that its government used chemical weapons against rebel forces fighting to overthrow the Assad regime "a caravan of lies."

A Syrian helicopter has fired three missiles which struck a Lebanese border town currently in revolt against the Assad regime. Several people were wounded.

The Syrian opposition has condemned the recent murder of a young boy in the country who was executed by Islamist militants for alleged blasphemy.

American officials have said the U.S. may decide this week on whether or not it will arm the Syrian rebels battling against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian Army is readying to launch an offensive military campaign in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in order to clear it of its rebel occupants.