At least 21 people, including 9 children and 6 women, were killed on Saturday when Syrian air force carried out deadly air strikes on rebel-held towns of Wadi Barada region near Damascus, activists and monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 13 civilians, including 4...

Rebels on Saturday have thwarted Syrian army attack on Seif al-Dawla neighborhood in northern city of Aleppo, 15 soldiers were killed, according to rebel commander. Abu al-Waleed said regime army had failed to achieve any progress in Seif al-Dawla neighborhood despite taking number of...

At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said on Saturday. The victims are thought to have suffocated after inhaling fumes from fuel after the boat took on water in the hold, the...

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet on Monday to discuss the Iranian nuclear program and peace efforts in Syria, Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the meeting would take place...