Moscow's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia on Wednesday called for a UN Security Council meeting on Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta.  Nebenzia asked the UN body to hold the meeting on Thursday. "We ask the the presidency to convene tomorrow an open meeting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A women killed and ten more people wounded in regime artillery fire in southern Daraa province, local activists said Wednesday. The heavy shelling targeted opposition-held areas in Daraa countryside in retaliation to mortar rounds hit the pro-regime  city of...

The International Committee of the Red Cross asked Wednesday for access to an enclave near Syria's capital where a regime aerial campaign has killed over 300 civilians and wounded 1,400 others this week. "The fighting appears likely to cause much more suffering in the days and weeks...

Turkey Wednesday said it would consider a "legitimate target" any group that comes to the aid of Kurdish militia in Afrin in northern Syria. The threat from presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin came a day after Syrian pro-regime forces entered Afrin, only to come under fire from Turkish...