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UN sends humanitarian aid to Idlib, NW Syria

The UN on Tuesday dispatched a total of 67 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Idlib, a northwestern Syrian province where millions of people are in desperate need of assistance. Trucks entered the city through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province, bordering Idlib....

Ex-Syrian vice president Khaddam dies in France at 88

Abdul-Halim Khaddam, a former Syrian vice president who became a prominent opponent of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule after fleeing to Paris in 2005, died on Tuesday in France, Salah Ayach, a Syrian exile who was close to him, said. He was 88. Khaddam died at 5 a.m. (0300 GMT) of a...

Kurdish forces end riots by IS prisoners in Syria

Kurdish-led forces in Syria put down riots by Islamic State (IS) militants in a prison in the country's northeast on Monday, hours after the extremists knocked down doors and dug holes in walls between cells, a Syrian Kurdish spokesman said.   It was not immediately clear if the...