Syrian National Coalition

A Yemeni rebel attack on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia killed a Syrian national and wounded seven civilians Sunday, a Riyadh-led coalition said, the latest in a series of strikes on the site.

A car bomb killed at least five people and wounded several others in a rebel-held town in northern Syria on Wednesday in an attack Syria's political opposition said targeted its officials and local headquarters.

Syrian opposition groups have taken advantage of a global Pokemon craze to draw the world's attention to the plight of children caught up in the country's five-year civil war.

A key Syrian opposition coalition on Wednesday postponed a decision on whether to join peace talks in Geneva while it awaits more information from the United Nations, a spokesman said.

Syria expressed outragetoday after a suspected US-led coalition strike for the first time killed regime troops, but the coalition denied its warplanes hit an army base.

At least 36 people were killed Friday in air strikes by Russian and Syrian jets on Islamic State-controlled Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said, describing them as the heaviest in the region since the start of the war.

Syrian insurgents captured a town on a major highway in the west of the country today after heavy fighting with pro-government militias, rebels and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

Any peace plan for Syria allowing President Bashar al-Assad to stand in early elections after a transition period would be "mad" because he is the root of the problem and holding a nationwide poll is impossible, a Syrian opposition figure said.

Syria's two main opposition groups settled longstanding differences today to agree that President Bashar al-Assad must step down in any deal to end the country's bloody conflict.

Syrian opposition representatives met in Cairo today in a bid to forge a new, broader alliance against President Bashar Al-Assad's regime and agree on a roadmap for ending the conflict.

A couple and their five children were killed overnight in Syria's northern Aleppo province in strikes by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, a monitor said today.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused Arab and Western governments of miscalculating in their backing for Syrian rebels as the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group gathered in Paris today.

Hundreds of members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood have returned from exile, hoping to rebuild a movement which was crushed decades ago at home and is deemed a terrorist organisation by leading Arab states.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will never be part of peace negotiations to halt the brutal civil war, US officials vowed on Monday, adding they were taking every step to bring an end to his rule.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and was exploring ways with other countries to pressure him into agreeing to talks.

A Yemeni rebel attack on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia killed a Syrian national and wounded seven civilians Sunday, a Riyadh-led coalition said, the latest in a series of strikes on the site.

A car bomb killed at least five people and wounded several others in a rebel-held town in northern Syria on Wednesday in an attack Syria's political opposition said targeted its officials and local headquarters.

Syrian opposition groups have taken advantage of a global Pokemon craze to draw the world's attention to the plight of children caught up in the country's five-year civil war.

A key Syrian opposition coalition on Wednesday postponed a decision on whether to join peace talks in Geneva while it awaits more information from the United Nations, a spokesman said.

Syria expressed outragetoday after a suspected US-led coalition strike for the first time killed regime troops, but the coalition denied its warplanes hit an army base.

At least 36 people were killed Friday in air strikes by Russian and Syrian jets on Islamic State-controlled Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said, describing them as the heaviest in the region since the start of the war.

Syrian insurgents captured a town on a major highway in the west of the country today after heavy fighting with pro-government militias, rebels and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

Any peace plan for Syria allowing President Bashar al-Assad to stand in early elections after a transition period would be "mad" because he is the root of the problem and holding a nationwide poll is impossible, a Syrian opposition figure said.

Syria's two main opposition groups settled longstanding differences today to agree that President Bashar al-Assad must step down in any deal to end the country's bloody conflict.

Syrian opposition representatives met in Cairo today in a bid to forge a new, broader alliance against President Bashar Al-Assad's regime and agree on a roadmap for ending the conflict.

A couple and their five children were killed overnight in Syria's northern Aleppo province in strikes by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, a monitor said today.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused Arab and Western governments of miscalculating in their backing for Syrian rebels as the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group gathered in Paris today.

Hundreds of members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood have returned from exile, hoping to rebuild a movement which was crushed decades ago at home and is deemed a terrorist organisation by leading Arab states.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will never be part of peace negotiations to halt the brutal civil war, US officials vowed on Monday, adding they were taking every step to bring an end to his rule.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and was exploring ways with other countries to pressure him into agreeing to talks.