BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday condemned the killing of civilians in Syria as a massacre, adding that Berlin would reach out to Russia in its efforts to stop the violence. "What we currently see, the dreadful events in Syria, a regime fighting not against...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led Kurdish militias have expelled displaced people from the government buildings and utilities in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, residents told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. The move of the Syrian Democratic Forces, mostly formed of powerful YPG...

Moscow's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia on Wednesday called for a UN Security Council meeting on Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta.  Nebenzia asked the UN body to hold the meeting on Thursday. "We ask the the presidency to convene tomorrow an open meeting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A women killed and ten more people wounded in regime artillery fire in southern Daraa province, local activists said Wednesday. The heavy shelling targeted opposition-held areas in Daraa countryside in retaliation to mortar rounds hit the pro-regime  city of...