At least 14 people, including 4 children and a woman, were killed when Russian warplanes struck rebel-held villages in the southern countryside of Aleppo, activists said Tuesday. Syrian troops and fighters from Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah militia, backed by Russian airstrikes have waged major...

About 13.5 million people in Syria are now in need of humanitarian assistance and some sort of protection –an increase of 1.2 million in just 10 months, the UN aid chief said Tuesday. Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council that more than 6 million of those in need are children. "There are...

Iran has been invited to join the next round of talks on the Syrian conflict to be held next week in Vienna, Austria, unnamed U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the invitation was delivered by Russia.    American,...

The Arab and Turkmen populations in northern Syria have faced human rights abuses in areas controlled by armed Kurdish group, the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), according to a report published Tuesday. In a 22-page report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said abuses against Arabs,...