Islamist militants and their local supporters have killed at least 22 people in a village in northern  Syria  near the Turkish border, opposition activists said on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group quoted residents in Shuyukh, 100 km...

Iran hosted a rival version of a "Friends of Syria" conference on Wednesday, convening lawmakers from allies around the world to push for a diplomatic solution to Syria's civil war and lambaste alleged Western interference. Iran is a longtime ally of President Bashar al-Assad, whose...

President Bashar al-Assad visited displaced Syrians in the town of Adra on Wednesday, state media said, in a rare public appearance outside the heart of Damascus. State television said Assad inspected a shelter for people displaced by fighting in Adra, which lies about 12...

The number of children affected by the civil war in Syria has more than doubled over the past year, with hundreds of thousands of young Syrians trapped in besieged parts of the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Monday. “After three years of conflict and...