At least 16 civilians were killed Sunday in Syrian regime's air strikes on the newly-liberated city of Idlib and its countryside, activists said. Activists reported 9 people killed in Kafr Takharim town, mostly from one family, as 7 others were killed in Idlib city, Ma'arrat...

The Syrian government and some opposition figures will start a second round of talks in Moscow on Monday focusing on humanitarian issues, although a broader agreement is unlikely as Syria's main opposition group continues to boycott the talks. Participants say they do not expect any big...

  (Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Critics rise by Syrian activists over the increase of corruption and bribery among the employees of Syrian regime's consulate in Istanbul. In theory, the consulate does the official documents for birth, marriage, death, power...

 Islamic State has taken control of 90 percent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts where 18,000 civilians have suffered years of bombing, army siege and militia control, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The hardline group's offensive in Yarmouk gives...

Five people, including 2 children, have been killed in a missile attack on rebel-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 5 people, including 2 children, have been killed...

(Reuters) - Around 15,000 antiquities locked away in safes around the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib are at risk of being sold on the black market, the head of antiquities and museums Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters on Friday. The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and other insurgents...

(Anadolu Agency)- Turkish Coast Guard crews have rescued 376 illegal migrants in operations carried out in the Aegean Sea between March 30 and April 3, Turkish provincial office said in a statement Friday. Most of the migrants came from Syria. According to the Izmir...

Syria’s Bashar al  -Assad  regime is gradually losing  border  crossings across the country and as of now only the ones along the Lebanese  border  that it controls are said to be open to traffic both ways, sources tell The Anadolu Agency. Most of the...

  Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State on Friday have seized more neighborhoods in the vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus, a bid to capture the group's first major foothold close to Bashar al-Assad's seat of power, activists and monitoring group...

 Al Jazeera Media Network in cooperation with Zaman Al Wasl newspaper aired late on Thursday an investigative report which has disclosed, for the first time, the mysteries and secrets of Sednaya Military Prison's massacre in July 2008. Al-Jazeera's Black Box series (Al Sondouq Al Aswad)...

Syria's Islamist rebels, who captured northern city of Idlib last Saturday, said number of procedures were taken to secure civilians, including the Christian community in the captured city.   Fatah Army,  an alliance of Islamist groups, has formed a security committee...

At least 9 people were killed in al-Ferdous neighborhood of Aleppo on Thursday when Syrian regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on one of the most crowded areas in the northern city, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Medics of al-Ansari field hospital confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl...

Southern Front rebels, including powerful Ahrar al-Sham group, on Thursday have taken full control of Syria’s border line with Jordan, rebel commander said. Early Thursday, Islamist rebels and Free Syrian Army fighters have seized control of...

   (Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Clashes between the Islamic State and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) still underway since Wednesdsy near the town of Tal-Tamer in the northern province of Hasakah, activists said. Key Kurdish militia PYD has made...

Tunisia's foreign minister says that diplomatic relations with Syria will be restored at a consular level, following a long hiatus that began during the Arab Spring. Taieb Baccouche told journalists Thursday that Syria had responded positively to the suggestion to restore...

Turkey will soon deport nine British citizens who have been detained for trying to illegally cross into Syria, Turkish officials said late Wednesday. The nine include four children and two female British citizens, the officials added. Earlier, Turkish officials told The Anadolu Agency that...

Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday, a bid to capture the group's first major foothold close to President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power. Islamic State fighters already control...

A group of Syrian opposition fighters called the "Southern Front" have taken control of the Nasib border crossing along the Syrian border with Jordan, the rebel group announced Wednesday. According to a statement, the opposition fighters seized the border gate in Nasib town in southern...

Syria's Islamist rebels, who captured northern city of Idlib last Saturday, said number of procedures were taken to secure the Christian community in the captured city.   Rebel Commanders of Ahrar al-Sham movement told Zaman al-Wasl that Fatah Army, an alliance of Islamist...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front indicated on Wednesday that a Syrian city captured from the government in recent days would be ruled according to Islamic sharia law but the group would not seek to monopolize power there. Nusra Front's leader, Abu Mohamad al-Golani, also said...