(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of longtime Palestinian refugees in a camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital have been cut off from  United Nations  emergency aid for nearly two months by armed groups that are preventing access, a U.N. official said. Up to 18,000...

An prominent ISIL chemical weapons engineer was killed in a coalition airstrike, U.S. Central Command said Friday. According to statement from CENTCOM, the militant was killed Jan. 24 in an airstrike in the vicinity of Mosul in northern Iraq. "[Abu] Malik...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of reconciliation committee in Yalda town in Eastern Ghouta escaped an assassination attempt on Friday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Sheikh Saleh al-Khatib, who led reconciliation efforts with Syrian regime, escaped an explosive...

(Reuters) - The next meeting between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government in Moscow will take place in about a month, Qadri Jamil, a participant in this week's consultations, said on Friday. The Moscow talks, which ended on Thursday, are not seen as...