Two aid organizations are calling on the international community to do more for the disabled and elderly among Syria’s displaced population, using a new report released Wednesday to highlight the special needs that these already marginalized members of the refugee community...

  Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters captured Wednesday the last major town in the Qalamoun region near the border with Lebanon after weeks of intense fighting, state media and activists said. Syrian TV and Lebanon's Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar station said the town of...

Predictably, as soon as the battle for the strategic Qalamoun area in the mountainous regions between Syria and Lebanon drew to a close — with the regime gaining the upper hand — fresh fronts opened in this seemingly endless civil war. Their location, however, was quite...

The U.N. refugee agency says it has delivered aid to a rebel-held area of the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo in a "rare and risky" operation carried out in cooperation with the Syrian Red Crescent. UNHCR said in a statement Wednesday that the operation took place following an...