Four civilians were killed in airstrikes by Bashar al-Assad regime forces and Russia on de-escalation zones in northern Syria on Sunday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency.  An airstrike targeted the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib province, leaving two civilians...

The Kurdish administration in Syria Sunday said it plans to hand 800 local women and children, including relatives of militants, to their families tomorrow in the first such transfer from an overcrowded camp. The women and children – all Syrians—are living among the dregs of Daesh (ISIS) in...

  (Hebrew Press)- The Israeli Shin Bet security service last month arrested a 22-year-old Arab Israeli woman suspected of having joined the al-Nusra Front terror group in Syria in March 2018. Rania Shenawi, of the Arab town of Makr, was arrested on May 7 upon her return to...

 Israeli strikes targeting Syria Sunday left 10 people dead, including three Syrian soldiers and seven foreign fighters, a monitoring group said. They were killed in missile strikes close the capital Damascus where Syrian troops, Iranian forces and Hezbollah fighters are stationed, the...

The Israeli military attacked Syrian military positions in response to rockets fired from Syria at Mount Hermon in the occupied Golan Heights, the army said Sunday. Two rockets were fired from Syria at Mount Hermon late Saturday, with the army saying in a Sunday statement that one of them...

Ten people were killed and 20 wounded Saturday in a suicide car bomb attack in Ragqa, a former stronghold of the Islamic State group in north Syria, a rights watchdog said. The explosion killed five civilians and five soldiers of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-Arab alliance...

Two rockets were fired on Saturday from Syria toward the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights causing no casualties, the Israeli military said. A military spokeswoman said that the details were still being looked into and that it remained unclear who had fired the rockets and where they had...

 Lebanese General Security Saturday organized the voluntary return of 621 Syrian refugees to their homeland from various places across Lebanon, The Daily Star reported. The displaced Syrians set off at about 6 a.m. in buses accompanied by General Security personnel, in...

Ankara and Moscow are again facing an escalation of violence in Syria's last rebel-held territory, a development that puts their cooperation to the test even as they support opposing sides in the eight-year war that has devastated Syria. An all-out offensive by Syrian government forces to...

Syrian NGOs decried on Friday the inaction of the international community to mounting violence in the last jihadist stronghold of Idlib, saying it had triggered the biggest wave of displaced people since the war began. As well as killing dozens of civilians, the recent bombardments by...

A spike in violence in and around a jihadist bastion in northwest Syria has killed 948 people in a month, almost a third of them civilians, a war monitor said Friday. A September deal was supposed to avert a full-out regime offensive on Idlib province and adjacent areas held by Syria's...

The Kremlin said Friday it was Turkey's responsibility to stop rebels in Syria's Idlib province from firing on civilian and Russian targets, signaling it would continue to back a Syrian government offensive there despite Ankara's protests. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib must be implemented to prevent more civilian deaths and an influx of refugees to Turkey, a statement from Erdogan’s office said. Erdogan told Putin over the phone on Thursday...

Syrian regime warplanes dropped bombs on a residential building in the last rebel's stronghold Thursday, pancaking it and killing at least five people, including a mother and her two children, rescue workers and activists said. Video shot by the Syrian Civil Defense showed volunteers...

Syrian rescue workers and activists say government warplanes have bombed the last rebel stronghold in the country again, leveling a building and killing five people inside it, including three members of a single family. The Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, says its...

A former logistics officer for Irish NGO GOAL was detained last year in Ukraine and is now facing US extradition on charges of corruption and witness tampering related to US-funded aid projects in Syria, The New Humanitarian has learned from court documents. The criminal charges are the...

It was looking to be a good year for farmers across parts of Syria and Iraq. The wettest in generations, it brought rich, golden fields of wheat and barley, giving farmers in this war-torn region reason to rejoice. But good news is short-lived in this part of the world, where residents of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A displaced mother and her six children have lost their lives on Wednesday when their tent caught fire in a refugee camp in northern Idlib province, local reporter said. The deadly fire in babble camp near the Turkish border was due to gas cylinder explosion,...

Top U.S. and Russian diplomats discussed step-by-step implementation of a 2012 roadmap to U.N.-supervised elections in Syria that could allow a Syrian government “to move back into the international community,” the U.S. envoy for the war-torn country said Wednesday. Ambassador James...

The European Union called on Wednesday for a ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib province and said Russia, Turkey, Iran and the Syrian government must protect civilians under siege. At least 180,000 people have fled an surge in violence in the province in northwest Syria, the last major stronghold...