The Syrian air force has continued the barrel bombing of Yabroud, 75 kilometers (48 miles) northwest of Damascus, amid a three-week regime offensive putting pressure on the city. The Local Coordination Committees said Tuesday that “ violent clashes and battles ” are occurring on...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition  has blamed dozens of bodies  near Otaiba on the Syrian military and Hezbollah, condemning “the cowardly act of killing civilians who tried to escape the siege imposed by the Assad regime”. The Coalition statement called on the...

Talks between NATO and  Russia  on a possible joint mission to protect a U.S. ship that will destroy Syria's deadliest chemical weapons are moving ahead despite tensions over Ukraine , a top U.S. commander said on Thursday. U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove,...

An Islamic group met Wednesday to quash fatwas (religious edicts) ruling that polio vaccines cause infertility, Al Arabiya News Channel reported “The whole world rejects such fatwas that polio vaccines cause infertility,” Abbas Chouman, a senior official at Cairo’s al-Azhar...