Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Victim Profile)- Michael Ebajeh, manager of Mar Elias Elderly Center in Aleppo, was among the 30 casualties who passed away last Saturday when Syrian regime air raid struck Maadi district of Aleppo. Ebajeh, a 48-year-old Christian man...

Syrian regime warplanes have continued the fiercest aerial campaign in months on rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, carrying out more than ten raids on Monday, as death toll rose to 60 people in three days. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said Bashar al-Assad's  warplanes have...

  In statement posted online, the Islamic Union of Ajnad Al-Sham declared war on the Islamic State, saying all bases and strongholds of the extremist group in the southern suburbs of Damascus are a legitimate target. Ajnad al-Sham group, which operates south of the capital, said,...

  A Syrian government air raid struck a school in an opposition-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least ten people, including five children, activists said. The Aleppo Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

Syrian Civil Defense officials of rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo city called on citizens to stay in their shelters and basements to avoid Syrian regime's aerial bombardment as the death toll of Saturday rose to 50 people at least. Civil Defense workers said at least 35 people...

  At least 35 people have been killed and 30 wounded in a regime air raid in Aleppo in northern Syria, Syrian Civil Defense officials have said. A regime warplane targeted civilians with a “vacuum bomb” in a crowded local market in the Maadi area under opposition control, Civil...

Pro-government forces repelled an attack on a key Syrian airport during a fierce battle in which they lost 20 fighters but killed almost as many militants, a monitor said Saturday. “There was an attack on the outskirts of the Khalkhalah military airport in Sweida province on Friday,”...

Islamic State has bolstered its forces north of Syria's second city Aleppo, where it is attacking rivals as part of a broader push beyond its eastern strongholds, a rebel leader and a monitoring group said. The radical jihadist group has in recent weeks conducted a series of attacks in...

   Syrian government's former employees, including teachers, have been facing an extraordinary situation in territories controlled by the extremist Islamic State group northeast Syria since they have obliged to 'repent' their work with the Syrian state to avoid death and...

BEIRUT- Doubts have been cast over claims that at least nine Lebanese servicemen being held hostage by ISIS militants were relocated to the group’s stronghold in Syria, parties involved in the negotiations told The Daily Star. A source in contact with ISIS militants in Qalamoun said the...

Talks between representatives of the Syrian government and some members of the opposition have ended in Moscow with no sign of a significant breakthrough. The second such talks in Moscow this year were marred by friction among President Bashar al-Assad's critics, and were not attended by...

 The International Committee of the Red Cross called on Thursday for immediate access to a Palestinian refugee camp in  Syria  which has largely been seized by Islamic State and where 18,000 people are caught up in fighting. The independent aid agency said that emergency...

United Nations  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had asked his Syria mediator to "focus much more to re-launch a political process" in a bid to end the four-year civil war that has killed some 220,000 people and displaced millions. Mediator Staffan...

(By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  Fighters of Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, assaulted a prominent activist for lifting the Revolution’s Flag in Bostan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo last Friday.  Hozaifa Dahman, the attacked activist,...

Fighters of Tahrir al-Sham Army took control of parts of an international road connects Damascus with the Iraqi border, the rebel group said in statement Thursday. Baghdad Road is a strategic supply route for Bashar al-Assad's military bastions in the eastern countryside of...

Syrian Opposition's the National Coalition seeks to get regime's frozen assets and funds by the International Community and the Arab states, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The Western-backed group has formed a legal committee with main mission aims to get the Syrian funds that had...

 (SHRC)- State Security forces in Egypt have raided the headquarters of a Syrian opposition channel based in Cairo and closed it without providing any reasons for doing so,  Syrian Human Rights Committee  reported . A group of around ten people dressed in civilian...

(Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday there is evidence of war crimes by Islamic State insurgents in  Iraq  and Syria but little prospect yet that their leaders will be investigated by the ICC. Crimes attributed to the...

(Reuters) - Two car bombs set off by Islamic State insurgents killed at least 31 people in northern  Syria  including a senior rival fighter from al Qaeda's Nusra Front, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday. Islamic State, which has captured wide areas...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -  United Nations  officials warned on Wednesday of a potential "slaughter of innocents" unless aid and assistance reached a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where thousands of civilians are trapped up in a vicious battle....