Syria has denied rebel claims they hit President Bashar Assad’s motorcade in a rocket and mortar attack in Damascus.

Syrian troops and rebels fought the heaviest battles in months in Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, today.

Thousands of Sunni Muslims fled a Syrian coastal town today, a day after reports circulated that dozens of people, including children, had been killed by pro-government gunmen in the area, activists said.

Six days of fighting in a Damascus suburb has killed more than a hundred people and possibly many more, activists said today, in what the government also acknowledged may be a dramatic spike in the rising death toll in Syria.

At least seven people have been killed in a rocket attack by government forces on a village near the central city of Homs, Syrian activists said today.

Syrian government troops trying to relieve a besieged military base in the country’s north-west ambushed a rebel checkpoint today, killing at least 12 opposition fighters, activists said.

Clashes between Syrian rebels and regime forces erupted today near a village where UN peacekeepers are being held hostage, an activist said, possibly complicating efforts to free them.

Several United Nations peacekeepers from the Philippines who were abducted by Syrian rebels said in videos posted online today that they are safe and sound.

Syrian rebels used captured tanks to launch a fresh offensive on a government complex housing a police academy near Aleppo today, and clashed with government troops protecting the strategic installation.

Heavy fighting for control of the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and a major military air base nearby has killed some 150 rebels and government soldiers over the past two days, activists say.

Syrian rebels are battling President Bashar Assad’s forces for control of the main airport in the northern city of Aleppo, activists say.

Syrian rebels are closing in on the country’s second largest airport, reportedly killing more than 40 soldiers and bringing them closer to what could be their biggest conquest since the beginning of the civil war.

Syrian rebels have captured a military air base in the country’s north, their second strategic victory in as many days, activists said today.

Syrian rebels captured the country’s largest dam today after days of intense clashes, giving them control over water and electricity supplies for much of the country in a major blow to Bashar Assad’s regime.

An activist group says a bombing of a military factory in central Syria this week has killed 54 people.

An activist group says a bombing of a military factory in central Syria this week has killed 54 people.

Syrian government troops battled rebels in several areas outside Damascus today while regime warplanes bombed opposition-held areas around the capital, including an airstrike on one village that killed at least seven people, activists said.

Syrian troops fought intense battles today against rebels who are trying to capture two military bases in the northwest and step up their attacks on army compounds elsewhere in the nation, activists said.

Syrian government troops have killed dozens of people in the central city of Homs, activists said today.

Islamic militants seeking to topple President Bashar Assad have taken full control of a strategic air base in a significant blow to Syrian government forces.

Hundreds of Islamic militants fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad seized parts of a strategic north-western air base today after weeks of battling government troops for control of the sprawling facility.

Syrian rebels have launched an attack on an air base in the northern province of Idlib, an activist group said.

Syrian rebels have captured a helicopter base near the capital Damascus.

Syrian rebels strengthened their hold on an oil-rich province bordering Iraq today, activists said, capturing a key military base which was considered one of the last bastions for President Bashar Assad’s loyalists in the strategic region.

Syrian rebels made a new push into Damascus today, clashing heavily with troops in the rebellious suburbs of the capital and firing mortars at a presidential palace and a Palestinian refugee camp, activists said.

Gunmen have executed captured men believed to include Syrian soldiers, according to reports.

Syrian warplanes are pounding opposition strongholds around Damascus and in the north, activists said today, as President Bashar Assad’s regime intensifies air strikes against rebels seeking to topple him.

Syrian planes pounded a strategic northern city today as troops pushed forward to recapture the area recently taken by rebels.

Jihadist fighters linked to al Qaida fought with rebels to capture a Syrian military air defence base near Aleppo, reports say.

A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb yesterday near a Syrian security compound in a remote, predominantly Kurdish town, killing at least four people, state media said, in a new sign that the country’s largest ethnic minority might be drawn into a widening civil war.

A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a Syrian security compound in a remote, predominantly Kurdish town today, killing at least four people.

Fires sparked by clashes between government troops and rebels raged through the medieval marketplace of Aleppo today, destroying hundreds of shops lining the vaulted passageways where foods, fabrics, perfumes and spices have been sold for centuries, activists said.

At least 30 people were killed and dozens of others injured when an air strike by Syrian forces hit a gas station in the north of the country and triggered an explosion.

A Syrian passenger jet with 200 people aboard has landed safely after a military helicopter clipped its tail in mid-air, reports say.

Evidence mounted of a new massacre in Syria’s deepening civil war, with activists reporting a killing spree by government forces after they seized the suburb of Daraya from rebel control three days ago.

Syrian rebels waged fierce battles with regime troops in a town along the Iraqi border today, capturing a string of security posts and the local police headquarters despite heavy government shelling and bombing runs by warplanes, activists said.

A Syrian government official warned the United States today that military intervention in Syria could lead to regional turmoil as regime forces bombed a northern village and stormed a rebel-held Damascus suburb, killing dozens of people.

Syrian troops have launched a broad ground assault on rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Aleppo.

At least 43 people have died in two days of Government shelling of a rebellious suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, activists say.

Syrian troops intensified shelling of rebel-held neighbourhoods in central Homs yesterday, according to activists who say humanitarian conditions are growing more dire and are pressing for the evacuation of 1,000 families and dozens of wounded people who can’t get adequate medical care.

Syrian troops have shelled rebel-held areas and clashed with opposition fighters in several locations across the country today, activists said.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has revealed three aid workers suffered minor injuries in Syria when an explosion hit their convoy.

Syrian rebels have pulled out of villages around the besieged mountainous town of Haffa after days of fierce shelling, a rights group said today.

International envoy Kofi Annan said today he was “gravely concerned” about the latest violence in Syria, citing shelling of opposition areas in Homs and reports of mortar, helicopter and tank attacks near the coast.