Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia have killed 10 civilians including five children in a northwestern jihadist bastion, a monitor said Monday, hours after Moscow announced a ceasefire there. Clashes between regime forces and jihadists raged Monday on the edge of the region held by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representatives of the Syrian displaced offices in the border city of Afrin called to a protest against the Turkish decision to close their offices, saying Turkey seeks to force the displaced to settle in northern Syria and to bar them from the right to return....

Russia says Syrian regime forces have unilaterally ceased fire in the northern Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold. Fighting erupted in Idlib late last month, effectively shattering a cease-fire negotiated by Russia and Turkey that had been in place since September. Russia has...

Israel launched strikes on southern Syria late Saturday, a monitoring group said, prompting air defenses into action for the second night in a row. "Israeli airplanes fired at least three missiles from the occupied Golan," said Rami Abdel-Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime’s economic crisis led to the ultimate cessation of financial support to pro-Bashar al-Assad’s media outlets and journalists, official sources revealed. Sha’aban Aboud, a Washington-based journalist, noted in his Facebook page, that media support for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least five rebels killed in artillery fire launched by the U.S.-led forces and the regime army in Azaz town in northern Aleppo province, commander said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces backed (SDF) and regime forces seek to take territory under the control of...

Air strikes stopped in northwest Syria over the past 12 hours, rescuers said on Saturday, as Turkey-backed rebels arrived at the fronts to help fight the army and its Russian ally. A spokesman for rebels said they rejected a ceasefire proposal from Moscow as long as government forces remain...

Syria's Transport Ministry said Iraqi Airways flights to Damascus expected for the first time since the war erupted in 2011 have been postponed indefinitely. The ministry said the two flights scheduled for Saturday were postponed because of administrative issues between the Syrian Civil...

The Turkish Red Crescent, locally known as Kizilay, launched mobile clinics in northern Syria on Saturday.  The launching ceremony was held in Friendship Refugee Camp in Syria's Azaz district and attended by Red Crescent head Kerem Kinik and deputy governor of Turkey's bordering Kilis...

Syrian air defenses in the Hmeimim air base thwarted projectiles and drones fired by militant groups, Syrian state TV said on Saturday. Militant groups fired projectiles at the Hmeimim air base in the Jableh area and at the Al Qardahah area near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, killing...

The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Syria's northwest province of Idlib, as Western powers challenged Syria and its ally Russia to provide assurances that attacks on hospitals and schools would stop. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on Friday, UN...

Turkey said on Friday Syrian government forces were violating a ceasefire agreement reached with Russia for Syria’s Idlib. Russia has backed the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has backed some rebels in Syria’s eight-year-old civil war, but they have worked...

Loud blasts echoed across Damascus late on Friday, residents said, as Syrian state media reported “enemy targets” coming from the direction of Israel, which has previously acknowledged conducting repeated strikes inside Syria. Syrian air defenses detected objects coming from the direction...

The European Union is prolonging sanctions against the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad for a year due to its continued crackdown against civilians in the war-ravaged country. EU headquarters said Friday that the 28-nation bloc "decided to maintain its restrictive measures against...

The head of Al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate has urged rival fighters allied to Turkey to take up arms against regime forces to ease the pressure on the jihadist bastion of Idlib. The northwestern region has come under increasing fire by the Damascus regime and its ally Russia in recent...

The United Nations said Friday the potential of a full scale battle in Syria's Idlib province could result in the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century. Mark Lowcock, the UN's under-secretary-general and emergency relief coordinator, said any operation with full military force...

Families who fled Syrian government and Russian strikes in northwestern Syria are sleeping in an olive grove near the Turkish border without enough food and no place else to go. They are some of the 180,000 people who have escaped an upsurge in violence in the last major Syrian rebel...

The UN Security Council will meet Friday to discuss the surge of fighting in northwest Syria, the second meeting on the worsening violence in as many weeks, diplomats said. Syrian forces and their Russian allies have stepped up attacks on the jihadist-controlled Idlib region since late...

Iraq's national carrier is to resume flights to the capital of neighbouring Syria for the first time since the war there erupted in 2011, a spokesman said Thursday. Iraqi Airways will operate a weekly service from Baghdad to Damascus starting Saturday, spokesman Layth al-Rubaie told AFP....

Russia on Thursday presented a draft resolution to the Security Council accusing the UN's chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, of politicization just weeks before a new probe begins of chemical attacks in Syria. The draft text, seen by AFP, states that the Council -- where Russia holds veto...