Air strikes on Syria's northwestern Idlib region stopped on Saturday after a Russian-backed ceasefire went into effect following four months of deadly bombardment, a war monitor said. "There are no warplanes in the sky and air strikes have stopped" said Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of...

At least 40 jihadist leaders were killed Saturday after a missile attack targeted their meeting in northwestern Syria, hours after a Russian-backed ceasefire came into effect, a war monitor said. The missiles targeted leaders of jihadist groups and allied factions near the city of...

The families of tens of thousands of people who have been forcibly disappeared or abducted since the onset of the crisis in Syria in 2011 have suffered years of agony in the face of government denials and insufficient support from the international community, Amnesty International said...

Russian-backed regime forces seized several towns and villages in northwest Syria Thursday, as deadly air strikes hit the jihadist-held bastion, a monitor said. Seven civilians died in air strikes in the south of the bastion, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after regime...