UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia and Syria clashed with the U.S. and its Western allies Wednesday over responsibility for the failure of a cease-fire to take hold in Syria as the U.N. said humanitarian convoys are ready to head to 10 locations including besieged Eastern Ghouta near the capital...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS news agency said 30 people, mostly women and children, were killed on Wednesday in the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. The strikes targeted the tow of al-Sha'fah near the Iraqi border, topping the death of U.S.-led...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed 15 troops on Wednesday and wounded 20 more as regime forces launched a ground assault on the edge of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, seeking to gain territory despite a Russian plan for five-hour daily ceasefires, a war monitor and sources on both...

The civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta since Syria and its ally Russia intensified their bombardment of the rebel enclave on February 18 topped 600 Wednesday, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 147 of the 601 civilians killed, mostly in air strikes,...