At least 17 civilians were killed in airstrikes Saturday by the Bashar al-Assad regime in northwestern Syria, said a local civil defense agency.  Regime warplanes have targeted Idlib’s city center, Maarrat al-Numan and Saraqib districts and 11 villages in the morning hours, said...

 Omar al-Tawil, a 15-year-old school boy in Damascus, is one of 24,000 Syrian youngsters now learning Russian at school after the country added the language of the government’s most powerful ally to the curriculum. Many young people in Syria, where Moscow intervened in 2015...

Voluntary teachers who did not want Idlib’s children to stay away from education turned a 12-square-meter tent into a school in the de-escalation zone in Idlib city of northwestern Syria. Over 20,000 more civilians have fled Idlib city in northwestern Syria, taking shelter near the...

A new cease-fire in an area of northwestern Syria rocked by violence -- though “acts of aggression” are already officially banned -- is set to start just after midnight on Sunday, Jan. 12, Turkey announced Friday. Turkey had pushed hard for the cease-fire, coming after Idlib, Syria...