A number of militant groups fighting government forces in Syria say they do not recognize any foreign-based opposition group, including the so-called Syrian National Coalition. "The National Coalition and the proposed [provisional] government under (recently chosen) Ahmad Tomeh do not represent us, nor do we recognize it," said 13 of Syria's powerful ...

An al-Qaeda-linked militant group and the so-called Free Syrian Army have agreed on ceasefire in the northern Syrian town of Azaz after days of clashes. The truce between the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and the Western-backed FSA was brokered by Liwa al-Tawhid, a powerful militant brigade loyal to the FSA. The two ...