Doctors working in rebel-held northern Syria will no longer share the locations of medical facilities with the United Nations after doing so failed to stop them being targeted by airstrikes. Some 25 hospitals have been bombed by Syrian government and Russian forces in the past month, as the...

Russia on Monday blocked a UN Security Council statement criticizing Syria's military campaign in the Idlib region that Western powers fear will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. Russia said in a note seen by AFP that the proposed statement was "unbalanced" because it did not mention the...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Monday started sending home 800 Syrian women and children who had been evacuated from the Islamic State group's "caliphate". They also handed over five Norwegian orphans who had been stranded in the same camp of Al-Hol following a visit by a...

The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria Monday handed over five orphans from families of Daesh (ISIS) to Norwegian authorities, a spokesperson said. "Following a request made by the Kingdom of Norway ... five Norwegian orphans related to Islamic State jihadists were handed over to a...