Syrian regime air force had dropped 2041 barrel bombs on rebel-held areas across Syria last July, leaving 368 people dead, including 83 children and 63 women, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a new report. The Syrian military has been dropping barrel bombs -- crude weapons stuffed...

At least 27 people were killed on Saturday when Syrian regime forces shelled a local market in rebel-held town in Idlib province, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. Saturday’s barrel bombs barrages hit the crowded sheep market in Senjar town, leaving dozens killed and wounded, . Two women and a child...

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a U.S.-drafted resolution on Friday laying the groundwork for an inquiry that would assign blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria's civil war. The resolution asks United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Organization for the...

 A cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said Friday. Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan...