A Turkish air strike hit the main hospital in Syria's Afrin town Friday night, killing nine people, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Turkey's military has denied hitting civilians in its offensive on the Afrin region, which it launched in...

BEIRUT (Reuters)- The Syrian regime army and allied forces have recaptured 70 percent of the territory that had been under insurgent control in the enclave of Eastern Ghouta, it said Friday. The regime military statement said troops had seized swathes of farmland, several villages and...

Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves on opposite ends of Syria Friday as two major battles in the multi-sided war entered decisive phases, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the path of both assaults. Air strikes killed scores of people in eastern...

 The United Nations said Friday there were "alarming reports" that Kurdish forces are blocking civilians from leaving the Syrian enclave of Afrin faced with a looming siege, and could be using them as "human shields". The U.N. rights office said it had been receiving "deeply...