Southern Front rebels and al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate announced Thursday a fierce offensive on Syrian regime forces in the major southern city of Daraa, saying their aim was to "purify" the area. Operation "Storm of Truth" was announced on Twitter by the Southern Front, an alliance of rebel...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Turkish Authorities have freed 8 Syrian refugees, including a woman, were detained in Ataturk airport in Istanbul over using of forged passports, one of the freed refugees told Zaman al-Wasl. Siraj Eddin Allon, who talked to Zaman...

Favorable rains have helped Syria’s 2015 wheat harvest but the country’s food insecurity is worsening overall because of war, two U.N. agencies said Thursday. Food production “remains way below its precrisis levels as the ongoing conflict continues to push more people into hunger and...

At least 44 civilians, including six children and a woman, were killed on Thursday when Assad regime forces shelled areas in a number of Syrian cities and villages under opposition control. "The Assad regime's forces used barrel bombs, vacuum bombs, mortar shells and tanks to attack areas under...