Four civilians were killed on Tuesday when Russian fighter jets conducted a series of airstrikes in northern Syria, according to local civil-defense officials.  Both Russia and the Assad regime have continued to carry out fierce airstrikes, both in central Idlib and in rural...

Turkey and Russia do not have any disagreements over Ankara's incursion into northern Syria's Afrin region, Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday, adding that the two countries were in close contact about the operation. Turkey launched an air and ground offensive dubbed...

Unexploded landmines left by Daesh (ISIS) fighters cover every inch of their former Syrian capital of Raqqa, a U.N. official said Tuesday, advising civilians against returning to their homes there. About 60,000 Syrians have returned to the ruins of Raqqa since Daesh left, Panos...

The death toll from Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus Tuesday  has risen to 104, local monitoring group and local activists said. Strikes on several locations in the besieged area east of the capital also wounded more than 100...

The Russian defense ministry has criticized an independent news website for publishing the average salaries of military officers after a Russian pilot's plane was downed over Syria. Saint Petersburg's respected news website Fontanka revealed late Monday that with basic information...

The United Nations called Tuesday for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Syria of at least one month as heavy air strikes were reported to have killed at least 30 people in rebel-held areas near Damascus and in the northwest. Separately, U.N. war crimes experts said in Geneva that...

The death toll from Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus Tuesday has risen to 33, a monitoring group said. Strikes on several locations in the besieged area east of the capital also wounded more than 100 people, the Syrian Observatory for...

 Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control approved a license for a company to sell military applicable technology to Iranian companies that subsequently was used in Syrian regime chemical weapons attacks, reported the German publication Bild on Monday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After the opposition forces brought down a Sukhoi 25 fighter jet in northern Idlib province last Saturday, Moscow quickly accused Washington of supplying Stinger missiles, a portable anti-aircraft, to the Syrian opposition. The U.S. State Department denied the...

A Turkish soldier was killed in a rocket and mortar attack by militants in northwest Syria as Turkish forces were setting up a military post in the largest remaining stronghold of opposition to President Bashar Assad, Turkey's military said Tuesday. It was the second attack in a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led airstrikes on a village held by Daesh (ISIS) in the eastern part of Deir Ezzor province killed at least 17 people on Monday, the group’s news agency said. Amaq said the the deadly strikes on Sha’fah east of Euphrates left 17 people killed and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed opposition on Monday has recaptured three villages from regime forces and allied militias in northern Idlib province as Russia air force steps up deadly aerial campaign in retaliation to killing military pilot, local activists said. 'Dahr al-Ghuzat',...

One civilian lost his life on Monday to a PYD attack in northern Azaz district, east of Afrin region, where an operation by Turkey is underway, according to security sources. The rocket attack launched from Afrin also injured five other civilians, said the source who refused to be...

The United States accused Russia Monday of delaying the adoption of a U.N. Security Council condemnation of reported chlorine gas attacks in Syria that left many injured in recent days, including children. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told the council that there was "obvious...

Turkish forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Monday captured another village from PYD/PKK terrorists in Syria's Afrin. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent based in the region, Dikmetas village in the town of Sharan and Mount Sirghaya were both cleared of terrorists....

 Syrian regime attacks on Tuesday left 30 civilians dead -- and dozens more injured -- in Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb, according to Syrian civil-defense sources. The civilian death toll has steadily risen as Assad regime forces continue to strike residential areas in...

Turkey has so far detained 573 people for social media posts and protests criticizing its military offensive in Syria, the government said Monday. The crackdown, which has extended to the national medical association, has deepened concerns about free speech under President Recep...

At least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January, most of them in Syria, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said Monday, vowing their voices "will never be silenced." "They were killed in ongoing conflicts, suicide attacks or frozen to death as they fled active war zones,"...

Russia has ordered its warplanes in Syria to fly higher to avoid being shot down by shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles after one of its jets was shot out of the sky on Saturday, the Izvestia daily reported Monday. The reported policy change came after Syrian rebels shot...

MOSCOW- The Kremlin said Monday that shoulder-launched missiles obtained and used by rebels in Syria were a huge danger to all governments after a Russian warplane was shot down there at the weekend. Russia's Defense Ministry has said that the aircraft, a SU-25, was downed in Syria's...