Russia has deployed 28 combat planes in Syria, U.S. officials said Monday, confirming the latest move in Moscow's increasing military presence in the war-torn nation. "There are 28 fighter and bomber aircraft" at an airfield in the western Syrian province of Latakia, one of the officials...

 Russia has started flying surveillance missions with drone aircraft in Syria, two U.S. officials said Monday, in what appeared to be Moscow's first military air operations in Syria since staging a rapid buildup at an airfield there. The U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Nearly 25,000 students in the northern countryside of Homs city have joined schools on 13- September, 90% of them in schools  regime-controlled areas, while the rest controlled by the opposition's interim government and other charity associations. ...

A new march by migrants trying to reach Europe overland from Turkey was blocked by police outside Istanbul Monday. Around 700 mostly Syrian men, women and children from a group that had been blocked for the past week at Istanbul's main bus station set out overnight on foot for the...