Childhood malnutrition levels in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, which has been under government siege since 2013, are at the highest levels recorded in the country since its six-year war began, the UN said on Wednesday. The UN children's agency UNICEF said a November survey in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Several executives of the French-Swiss cement maker Lafarge were investigated on Wednesday by the SNDJ (judicial customs) on financial links to extremist groups in Syria, including Daesh (ISIS), France Inter Radio said. Some of them have already...

Dozens of mortar bombs landed on the last major rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, a war monitor and a witness said on Wednesday, despite a 48 hour truce proposed by Russia to coincide with the start of peace talks in Geneva. After a relatively calm morning,...

Russia's ambassador to the United Nations accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Wednesday of trying to partition the country by setting up local governing bodies in areas seized from Daesh (ISIS), Russian news agencies reported. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia was cited as...