Fresh air strikes hit the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, the fifth straight day of a bombing campaign that has killed more than 220 civilians. Syrian warplanes have battered the enclave's towns since Monday, trapping thousands of families in...

Relentless bombardment by the Syrian military of the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta is hampering vital relief operations, an international aid group warned Friday. The intensity of the air strikes, which have killed more than 220 civilians in just four days, has made it extremely...

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish jets have resumed airstrikes in the Syrian Kurdish-run enclave of Afrin after a brief lull. Anadolu Agency said F-16 jets resumed their aerial bombing campaign late on Thursday. Unconfirmed Turkish media reports had Turkey had halted...

Citing recent reports of the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons, the United States Thursday said it backs a call from the United Nations to put violence in Syria on pause for a month in order to deliver humanitarian aid and facilitate the evacuation of 700 civilians. "We are...

Four days of ferocious Syrian government raids on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta have killed more than 216 civilians, a war monitor said Thursday. Syrian regime troops have waged an intense air campaign on Eastern Ghouta since Monday that has left at least 207 civilians dead...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least six people, including children, have been killed in fresh airstrikes on northern Idlib province targeting two schools, Civil Defense rescuing group said. The strikes hit the town of Meshemshan following a bloody Wednesday where the Russian and  Syrian...

Israel's supreme court Thursday rejected an appeal by three members of a Jewish gang convicted of kidnapping, beating and burning alive a Palestinian teenager in 2014. The decision upholds life sentences for two of them and a 21-year jail term for the third over the chilling...

Turkey on Thursday said it planned to host in Istanbul a new three-way summit on Syria with the presidents of Russia and Iran aimed at reviving a drive to bring peace to the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to hold the summit in...

   A fourth consecutive day of heavy regime bombing raids on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus killed 51 civilians Thursday, a monitor said. The civilian toll was first reported at nine Thursday morning but almost immediately began to rise, mirroring...

(Zaman Al Wasl) The Islamic State's policy in recruiting children and turning schools into shelters for the displaced has contributed to the suspension of the educational process in Deir Ez Zor province, making more than 300,000 children out of school for almost three years. Khaled...

The US military launched air strikes on regime-backed troops Wednesday after as many as 500 attackers began what a US military official said appeared to be a coordinated assault on Syrian opposition forces accompanied by US advisers. The official said the strikes were in self-defence...

Turkey and Iran are violating international law through their actions in Syria, said France's foreign minister on Wednesday, demanding that all Iranian-backed militia, including Lebanon's Hizballah, pulls out of the country. Jean-Yves Le Drian, speaking on BFM television, added that...

The US-led Syrian Democratic Forces headquarters were attacked by Syrian pro-regime forces on Wednesday, and American-led coalition forces responded with an airstrike during the attack, the military said Wednesday evening. The attack from the pro-regime forces was unprovoked, and in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten civilians killed and dozen more wounded in heavy aerial bombing on the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defense agency said Wednesday. The deadly strikes hit the town of Maarrat al-Nu'man, according to the rescuing group.  Meanwhile, the death...

Syrian Kurdish fighters accused the Turkish army Wednesday of shelling a primary school and a water plant in Syria's northern Afrin region. Nouri Mahmoud, spokesman of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, said Turkish forces and their Syrian insurgent allies damaged the water plant...

THE HAGUE: International watchdog OPCW said Wednesday it is probing "all credible allegations" of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, amid growing reports of their alleged deployment by the Damascus regime. A fact-finding mission from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

MOSCOW: Russia is talking to Turkey about gaining access to the crash site of a Russian SU-25 jet downed near Idlib in northern Syria, Interfax news agency cited Vladimir Shamanov, head of the Russian parliament's defense committee, as saying Wednesday.

Air strikes killed 23 civilians including five children in a rural part of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The death toll from air strikes that targeted Eastern Ghouta villages increased to 23 people, including...

Damascus-based activists early Wedensday reported heavy Israeli missile attack on suspected chemical facility in Jamraya north of the capital. Sources revealed that Iran is running Chlorine gas facility in Jemraya's research centre. the gas which has been used twice during the week by...

 Russian and Syrian government forces launched a new wave of airstrikes and shelling Tuesday, plunging the besieged area just outside of Syria's capital of Damascus into a spiral of violence and despair. At least 55 civilians were killed in what activists described as one of...