Syrian warplanes have struck rebel-held towns and villages in the country's northwest as the World Food Program says weekslong violence has hampered some of its activities in the area. WFP said in a statement Tuesday that due to the latest wave of violence that broke out on April 30,...

Gazing over his wheat field in northeastern Syria, farmer Adel Othman expects a bumper crop this year, but two rival authorities squabbling over his harvest have dashed his enthusiasm. After successive droughts and eight years of civil war, both the local Kurdish authorities and the...

Three French jihadists and their nine children returned to France Tuesday after being expelled by Turkey, legal sources said, a day after France took back 12 children of French jihadists from camps in northern Syria. The returns mark an acceleration in the repatriation of children of French...

(Action Group For Palestinians of Syria)- Activists have slammed the Russian and Syrian regime forces for ransacking the old cemetery of Yarmouk Camp, in Damascus, in search of the body remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the Battle of Sultan Yaakoob in Lebanon in 1982....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 civilians, including 5 children and 3 women, were killed and dozen wounded in regime airstrikes on the northwestern idlib province, rescuing groups said Monday.  The deadly airstrikes hit the village of Jabala in the southern countryside of Idlib...

A Kurdish official in northeast Syria called for help from the US-backed coalition Monday as fires ravaged through vital wheat fields in the latest of such blazes nationwide. Syria's Kurds have led the fight against the Islamic State group in the north and east of the country, backed by a...

Since the fall of the Islamic State's "caliphate" in March, the international community has been torn over what to do with the families of foreign jihadists captured or killed in Syria and Iraq. Some 12,000 foreigners from as many as 40 countries -- 4,000 women and 8,000 children - are...

Six civilians were killed and dozens injured in airstrikes carried out by regime forces and Russia in northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency on Monday.  The attacks targeted the towns of Ma’ar Shoreen, Khan Shaykhun, Al-Tamanah and...

Up to 2 million refugees could flee to Turkey if fighting intensifies in northwestern Syria as aid funds run dangerously low, the United Nations said on Monday. Syria's Russian-backed military has been pressing an assault on rebels in their last major stronghold with air attacks and ground...

Syria's Kurds have handed over 14 orphans born to jihadist families to government delegations from France and the Netherlands, in the latest repatriations of foreigners living in crowded camps. Abdelkarim Omar, the top Kurdish foreign affairs official, said Monday that 12 French and two...

Hundreds of mourners attended the burial of a Syrian goalkeeper turned opposition fighter Sunday after he died of wounds sustained in battle against regime forces. Abdel-Basset al-Sarout, 27, died on Saturday after he was wounded on Thursday night in clashes on the edge of the embattled...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Secondary school students in Syria’s eastern provinces were forced to take their exams in centers controlled by regime forces in Hasaka, Deir al-Zour and Hama, activists said. Activist Mahmoud al-Ahmad said that the secondary school exams went naturally in Hasaka and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the onset of summer, some diseases become to spread in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor as al-Kasrah hospital records 40 cases of diarrhea and fever in children daily. A medical source reported receiving more than 75 cases of diarrhea and fever among children in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least four Kurdish fighters killed in motorcycle blast in the northeastern city of Hasaka, the Islamic State's propaganda agency reported on Saturday. According to Amaq agency, the booby-trapped motorcycle went off in the southern district that controlled by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Abdul Basset al-Sarout, a Syrian revolution Icon, vocal supporter and former football soccer, has died of wounds sustained Friday in clashes with regime forces in northwestern Hama province, rebel commander confirmed to Zamal al-Wasl. Captain Mustapha Ma'arrati,...

Fierce clashes between regime forces and jihadists have left 83 combatants dead in northwestern Syria in the past 24 hours, a Britain-based war monitor said Friday. The clashes on the edge of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region have killed 44 regime loyalists and 39 fighters since...

The father could hardly bear seeing his 18-month-old daughter's panic every time the Syrian regime warplanes flew over their home. Every day for a month, she ran to him to hide in his arms, tearful and breathless. Abdurrahim had refused to flee his hometown throughout years of violence, and...

A top UN adviser warned Thursday of a humanitarian catastrophe in Idlib, northwestern Syria, where the Bashar al-Assad regime has been stepping up airstrikes. In a statement, Najat Rochdi, senior humanitarian adviser to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, said 3 million people in Idlib need...

Syrian armed opposition and a war monitoring group say rebels have launched an offensive against regime forces on the edge of their stronghold in northwestern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebel offensive Thursday afternoon began with a volley of rockets and...

Bombs rain on children, hospitals are blown to pieces and the stream of those fleeing the bloodshed rises unabated -- after Aleppo and Ghouta, Idlib has become the latest deadly stage in Syria's theatre of war, watched by a largely silent international community. Rights groups decry that...