Twelve people were killed on Thursday by airstrikes and artillery fire in northetn  Idlib province, local civil defense sources said. According to the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense agency, Russian and Syrian regime warplanes repeatedly struck residential areas of the...

Pakistani diplomats in Syrian capital Damascus have contacted an elderly couple in a besieged suburb after their plight was highlighted by Anadolu Agency. Muhammad Fazal Akram and Sughra Bibi Akram are among the 400,000 civilians caught in Eastern Ghouta by a Syrian regime blockade....

A second batch of sick civilians, most of them children, left the besieged Eastern Ghouta, aid officials said on Thursday, but hundreds of critical patients remained trapped. Four evacuations took place on Tuesday and another group of 12 made it out late Wednesday, but a top...

Islamic State fighters are trying to make their way to parts of Syria controlled by President Bashar al-Assad, where they are apparently able to operate freely. “We are seeing the movement of limited numbers of ISIS militants westwards,” said British Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney, deputy...