UN aid convoy heading to besieged area in rural Damascus on Thursday to deliver vital supplies: UN spokesman

Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, rebel officials and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday. There was no immediate comment from the Syrian military on the reports, or mention of Aleppo air...

Writing by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo city towards the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s appeared like other Syrian provinces a coal burning under the ashes especially after the artillery school incident in 16/06/1979 which led the regime to tighten its grip on every inch of...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry demanded on Wednesday that Russia and the Syrian government immediately halt flights over Syrian battle zones, in what he called a last chance to salvage a collapsing ceasefire and find a way "out of the carnage". An impassioned Kerry faced off with...