Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud accused Syrian President Bashar Assad Wednesday of having aided the rise of ISIS and called for a political settlement with moderate forces to end the war there. The solution would be to form "a transitional government made up of moderate opposition...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel-held areas of the central province of Homs have been under fierce aerial and ground shelling for the sixth day, activists said Wednesday as 11 people have been killed in the recent 48 hours. Early Wednesday, Syrian regime warplanes carried out four air strikes on...

The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body on a Turkish beach became a symbol of the refugee crisis, has made a Christmas appeal to the world to open its doors to Syrians fleeing conflict. The message, to be broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 on Christmas Day, comes after...

Russia's bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that the air raids had violated humanitarian law. "Russian air strikes in Syria have...