Daesh (ISIS) launched a deadly counter-offensive Wednesday to repel US-backed forces advancing on a final militant-held pocket of eastern Syria, a monitor said. The Daesh militants managed to take hostage several dozen fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, according to the...

The United Nations' children agency says two children have died in a desert camp for displaced people along the Syria-Jordan border. UNICEF says the children died in the past 48 hours due to lack of medical care. The agency says a 5-day-old boy and a 4-month-old girl died in the squalid...

Zaman al-Wasl TV has interviewed two disabled sisters who dream as all children to pave the their way in the life, to start the first step, to study and make friends. Thara'a and Farah who belong to a family of ten members have lost their father years ago. They live with their sick...

A planned buffer zone in northwest Syria has been cleared of heavy armaments ahead of time but a new deadline loomed Wednesday for the tougher task of Turkey convincing jihadists to pull out their fighters. The demilitarised zone ringing the Idlib region is the result of a deal reached...