Islamic State may take full control of the historic city of Palmyra by Sunday as the radical group makes significant advances of the city in the last few days, local activists said.  ISIS militants had seized control of al-Ameriya and al-Villat neighborhoods as well it number of...

 At least 90 people were killed on Friday in a regime barrel bomb attack on bakery and petrol station in a rebel-held city of Manbej in the northern countryside of Aleppo, a monitor and activists said.  Bashar al-Assad's helicopters committed a massacre, dropping a barrel bombs on a...

Regime airstrikes on three adjacent rebel-held villages in northern Syria killed at least 39 civilians, 17 of them children, an activist group said Thursday. Eight siblings were among the dead from the Wednesday strikes in southern Aleppo province, around 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the main...

At least 37 people were killed Tuesday in a regime barrel bomb attack on a mini-bus stand in a rebel-held part of Syria's Aleppo city, activists said. "Helicopters committed a massacre, dropping a barrel bomb on a mini-bus station in the Fardous district of Aleppo, killing 20 civilians, among...