Artillery fire from regime-controlled territory and airstrikes Saturday killed at least eight civilians in Syria's last rebel enclave, most of them children, and destroyed a civil defense center and a water station, rescue workers and a war monitor said. The shelling in Ibleen, a village in...

 Hundreds of humanitarian workers formed a human chain on Friday stretching from a border crossing with Turkey toward a rebel-held city in northwestern Syria to protest Russia’s attempts to close the only remaining border crossing that allows aid into areas held by Syrian insurgents....

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday that extrajudicial killing claimed the lives of 723 civilians in the first half of 2021, noting that 95 civilians were documented killed in June 2021, including 22 children, eight women and 11 individuals due to torture.   The...

France warned Russia on Thursday that if humanitarian aid deliveries are allowed only across conflict lines within Syria -- and not from neighboring countries -- Western nations which provide almost all the money will stop the funding. France’s U.N. Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere, the...

  The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army on Wednesday has thwarted an attempt by the Kurdish YPG militia to infiltrate the Peace-Spring zone in northeastern Syria, Anadolu agency reported.    YPG militants tried to infiltrate into a border village near Tal Abyad town but such...

The Palestinian refugees of Daraa camp and Daraa Al-Balad are facing difficult conditions due a siege a imposed by Syrian regime forces on southern Daraa city last week amid high prices and the loss of food and medicine, a Palestinian monitoring said Wednesday.   The Action Group for...

Turkey is in talks with Russia and other members of the United Nations Security Council on the extension of a cross-border aid operation into war-torn Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday, less than 10 days before the mandate expires. Millions of people depend on...

The Turkish Religious Endowment has collected enough donations to build hundreds of units designated to house the displaced in northern Syria, Turkish media said Tuesday.   The charity had received donations from the French city of Strasbourg collected by the branch of the Turkish...

In a camp in northwest Syria, Mohamad al-Abdullah relies on UN aid to treat a spinal injury that could have paralysed him had it not been for cross-border aid. But that life-saving assistance is now threatened by a Russian veto. With Moscow threatening to shut the region's last crossing...

Qatar Charity has coordinated with the Syria Vaccine Team SIG to provide the vaccine to Syrian displaced in northern Syria through two primary health care centers operated by Qatar Charity to conduct the Corona vaccine in northern Syria. The first Center is the Al-Ra’i Center in the...

A prominent Hezbollah-affiliated official was assassinated in southern Syria on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Aref Al-Jahmani, a commander linked to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon, was reportedly assassinated in the town of Saida, located in Deraa...

A Palestinian rights monitor said that more than 200 children live in difficult conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, stressing that the scenes of destruction and the rubble of houses have become a nightmare engraved in their minds, which has created psychological problems...

The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army launched an arrest campaign targeting wanted people in Jarablus city in the northern province of Aleppo, local reporter said Sunday.   The National Army has imposed a complete curfew in the city of Jarablus, seeking to hunt drug dealers,...

US air strikes against Iran-backed armed groups on the Syrian-Iraqi border killed at least seven fighters overnight into Monday, sparking immediate calls for revenge and fears of a new escalation between Washington and Tehran. The second such raid on pro-Iran targets since US President Joe...

Lebanese troops deployed in the northern city of Tripoli early Sunday taking positions around major state institutions after a night of protests and riots against worsening living conditions left several protesters and 10 soldiers injured. Sporadic protests were reported throughout...

Syrian regime forces backed by Russia's military police have besieged Daraa al-Balad city in southern Daraa province as residents refuse to hand over their own weapons, local reporter said Saturday.   Local activists say the Russian demand is a new trick to tighten control over the...

 Three civilians were killed on Saturday by the explosion of an explosive device in the city of Afrin in northern Syria, state-run news agency reported.   Citing local sources, SANA said a powerful explosion rocked Afrin as a result of an explosive device affixed in a car....

A senior US official has warned countries in the Middle East against restoring ties with Syria, citing atrocities committed by the government of President Bashar al-Assad, as well as stringent sanctions against doing business with Damascus.  On a call to reporters on Friday, Joey...

World Food Programme (WFP) spokesperson Tomson Phiri said that the renewal of the UN resolution allowing cross-border operation was critical, since “millions of lives are at stake”. Lifeline for 2.4 million Speaking in Geneva during a regular briefing, Mr. Phiri explained that...

  Four pro-regime militants were killed and six wounded in a landline explosion in the central province of Hama, state-run news agency reported Thursday.   The landmine went off while a military bus was passing near the village of Rasm Ghazali in the eastern countryside of...