Russia said Wednesday it opposes a new U.N. Security Council resolution on the humanitarian plight in Syria, an announcement that is likely to torpedo a Western and Arab-backed draft that would pressure the government and opposition to allow desperately needed aid into the country....

 Suqour al-Sham Brigades denied to Zaman Alwasl signing any truce with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to not attack each other, saying it might be fabricated.  Pro-jihadist social media on Wednesday have circulated a photo for document purporting...

Assad’s forces offensive on the town of Azzara and the strategic hills surrounding it in Homs province has been continuing for the seventh day.    Activists reported using Napalm incendiary bombs in Azzara by regime army. Activists said that dozens of...

    Syria missed another deadline Wednesday for destroying its chemical weapons amid a British report that Bashar Assad's regime is stockpiling the weaponry for use in case the country is partitioned. Syria agreed last year to turn over its chemical weapons to the...

Turkey is turning away Syrian families without passports after a refugee influx caused by intensified "barrel bombing" in Aleppo filled up its refugee camps, the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said on Wednesday. One of the Syrian opposition's most vocal allies, Turkey has...

Polio vaccination has begun in Syria's besieged Yarmuk camp, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA said Wednesday. The once bustling residential and commercial district south of Damascus, home to both Syrians and Palestinians, had been largely sealed off by a tight army siege...

The United Nations thanked Hollywood on Wednesday for raising awareness of cultural crimes during conflict with the movie "The Monuments Men" as the world body tries to stop the pillaging of Syria's heritage during the country's three-year civil war. UNESCO, the U.N. cultural,...

Well-placed sources report that the local council in the bombarded Damascus suburb of Darayya have rejected the offer of a “truce” by the Assad regime. Since December 31, more than 200 bombs have falled on Darayya, strategically located between southern Damascus and Daraa Province in...

State news agency SANA declares that “hundreds of families displaced” from the Damascus suburb of Moadaimya have begun returning to their homes after a local truce “establishing an atmosphere of quiet through national reconciliation efforts”. A local regime official said residents...

The death toll from regime bombing in Aleppo fell on Tuesday, but there was little relief in the critical situation for civilians in insurgent-held areas. Videos and images showed masses of residents and their belonging trapped at Aleppo’s main crossing point, Karaj al-Hajez, with...

  Human Rights Watch has been working on Syria for years. This video features two of Human Rights Watch's investigations in 2013, including the al-Bayda massacre and the Ghouta attacks.

The United Nations has accused both sides to the Syria conflict of grave violations against children. Children caught in the Syrian war are being recruited as child soldiers, used as human shields, and tortured, according to a new UN report. The report, released on...

A truce signed Tuesday between the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Suqour al-Sham – one of the brigades constituting the Islamic Front, key rebel group, to not attack each other.   ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi and  Suqour Sham Leader, Abu Eassa...

Liwa al-Tawhid, main unit in the Islamic Front rebel group, has released a video purporting to expose “the truth about Baghdadi’s state” the State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

US Secretary of State John Kerry has hit out the "brutality" of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its sustained barrel bomb campaign. In a written statement released on Tuesday, Kerry said use of the bombs was reminding the world of the Assad regime's "true colours."...

The World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday started an airlift from Iraq to transport enough food to feed close to 30,000 displaced people for a month in northeast Syria, a UN spokesperson said. "The airlift comes amid growing problems in reaching people, especially in conflict and besieged...

U.S. Ambassador to  Syria  Robert  Ford  is retiring at the end of the month, current and former U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Ford , a career foreign service officer and a fluent Arabic speaker, was instrumental in negotiating with Syrian opposition...

  Men pull a girl from the rubble and haul her onto a dirty sheet of plastic, while another child, coated in white dust save for a red streak of blood from his nose, lies with his crushed leg dangling off a gurney - the grisly aftermath from the dropping of a crude “barrel bomb”...

   The son of popular Syrian Salafist cleric Adnan al-Aroor publically rejected his father's calls for jihad in Syria, criticizing him for urging young men to fight in Syria while he sits and watches from a comfortable distance. “Why don’t you get up and go...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday expressed support for the Syrian National Coalition’s decision to attend the second round of the Geneva II peace talks, saying that the move showed the Coalition supported a political, rather than a military, resolution to the conflict....