A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 63 people, including women and children, in the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus because of food and medical shortages, AFP reported. Yarmuk in southern Damascus has been under a choking army...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has seized the city of Manbij east Aleppo after two weeks of violent clashes with Islamist rebels, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Rebels withdrew for lack of ammunition, activist said, ISIL's reinforcements never stopped...

Syria's government and its enemies came face to face on Wednesday for the first time as a peace conference began in Switzerland which world powers hope can at least start a process to end three years of civil war. There was immediate evidence of sharp differences, as U.S. Secretary...

A prominent doctor has been freed by assistance Douma rebels after 73 days of detention without identifying the kidnappers, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. Activists accused Key al-Qaeda group in Syria, al-Nusra Front, of kidnapping Dr. Ahmed Salim al-Boukaei and...