Save the Children has hit out at the "moral outrage" of the mounting deaths and suffering of children in the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo, in a statement released Wednesday. The charity said medics across northwest Syria were looking to fortify hospitals after a wave of attacks in...

Reporting by Mohamed Yasser EASTERN GHOUTA (Eqtsad)- In not very far days, Abu Khalid remembers the harshest days of blockade, but this time with his twins Judi and Taj. Their main food was not available after regime forces centralized in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs have been...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad's powerful stronghold of Tartus received 40 bodies for soldiers claimed to be killed in Aleppo and Palmyra battlefields, activists said. The daily coffins shipment has sparked state of anger despite regime striving to calm things down by rewards and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 35 fires have broken out in forests of the coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces since Saturday, and dozens are still on till writing the news. And between an hour and another, another fire starts, as the dry weather helped in spreading fire. Fire brigade in Latakia,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmed al-Darbo, 38-year-old, is preparing himself with 7 members of his family to leave Qamishli, Northern of Hasaka to Turkey, via a long illegal route at a cost of $2000, amid unprecedented soaring of food prices. "Moreover, we still suffer of the sugar crisis in towns and...

The Syrian regime has demanded rebels pull out of East Aleppo and and civilians leave the area, as Damascus continued with an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector. The army, which has besieged the east for months, also demanded that rebels distribute food to civilians,...

(Zaman, Al Wasl)- First cross-line convoy in November entered the hard-to-reach town of Rastan in central Homs province with aid for 107,500 people, U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday. Local activists said 51 vehicles carrying food rations entered the...

Containers of a chemical suspected to be chlorine were dropped by helicopters on rebel-held east Aleppo on Tuesday, causing breathing difficulties in some people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the local health authority said. The Britain-based war monitor said its network of...

In the past six months, the number of people living under siege in Syria has doubled. Today there are almost one million Syrians being “isolated, starved, bombed and denied medical attention and humanitarian assistance.” The latest figures from the UN come a week after deadly airstrikes by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians were killed in the northern countryside of Hama province when regime warplanes hit the town of Latamneh with five vacuum missiles, local activists said Tuesday. The rebel-held countryside of central Homs province has been under severe siege along with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime security personnel arrested tens of men from cities in the Syrian coast Latakia, Jableh, Banyas, and Tartus in a new arrest campaign included what regime checkpoints could arrest of men whose age between 18 and 40 and who are capable of using weapons. The arrest...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Caravan, an artistic educational project in a form of “mobile theatre” talks about suffering of Syrian refugees in Lebanon via using different presentation technique besides music, lighting and sceneries. The project is funded by the European...

At least 141 civilians, including 18 children, have been killed in a week of renewed bombardment on the rebel-held eastern half of Aleppo which has devastated its hospitals, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday. The Britain-based pro-opposition group said it had documented...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A high school was opened Sunday in Jarablus in the name of martyr Ahmad Saleem al-Mala. The high school has been equipped with best educational means for pupils and teachers by the Turkish Government. The opening of school comes after 3 years of closing all the city schools...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Four civilians have been killed in the besieged al Waer neighborhood of Homs city as regime forces wage major attack on the last stronghold for rebels in the central province, Homs Media Center said Monday. The ongoing offensive that begun six days ago has left 17...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's aerial bombing on central Homs province has halted the delivery of U.N. aid to the besieged Rastan town and neighboring villages, local a activists said Monday. Syrian rebels, in response to Waer bombing, have pounded the predominantly Alawite district of...

Reporting by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Institute for Justice published on Monday a photo of what it said to be remains of ammunition carrying poisonous material in which warplanes struck Aleppo neighborhoods on Sunday. The institute said, “regime warplanes targeted Aleppo...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Huge fire broke out on Sunday night in fields of Bashar al-Assad's hometown of al-Qardaha in Coastal Latakia province, pro-regime social media accounts reported. Fire has extended to wide area of fields and forests of villages of Dwitran, Khribat al-Qalaa, Qalaa al-Mahalba,...

Four people were killed and eight others injured in a cluster bomb attack Sunday in war-battered Aleppo city in northern Syria.  A regime warplane struck the opposition-held al-Shear district in eastern Aleppo, pro-opposition civil defense official Abdullah Nualu told Anadolu...

  U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke for around four minutes on Sunday at the APEC summit about Syria and Ukraine, in what is likely to be their last in-person meeting before Obama leaves office. The two men met at the start of the summit meeting...