About 13.5 million people in Syria are now in need of humanitarian assistance and some sort of protection –an increase of 1.2 million in just 10 months, the UN aid chief said Tuesday. Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council that more than 6 million of those in need are children. "There are...

Ahrar al Sham Islamic movement has no relation or links with the newly announced body, The Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in the northern city of Aleppo, the communication officer told Zaman al Wasl. Social media activists circulated on Saturday a video statement...

At least 120,000 people have been displaced since early October in the Syrian governorates of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib, the United Nations said on Monday, more than doubling an earlier estimate of 50,000. According to Reuters, most of the people who have fled from an upsurge of fighting have...

Islamic State has published on the social media photos showing its last gains against Syrian regime and allied militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo city. ISIS said on Friday it had taken control of eight army checkpoints on the road and cut off the regime army supply route to...