(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters stormed early on Friday Nusra Front's checkpoints in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp southern Damascus, a day after both sides agreed on provisional ceasefire deal and made a prisoner swap, sources said. ISIS' surprise attack on Nusra Front targeted...

Warplanes struck twice Friday on the outskirts of Syria's Douma, northeast of Damascus, the first raids there since a cessation of hostilities agreement went into effect, activists said. Rami Abdulrahman from the Britain-based the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the...

(Vice News)- Syria's civil war has left 250,000 people dead, according to the latest UN count, and millions more are either displaced within the country's borders or have sought refuge abroad. And, while the proximate causes were largely political — primarily grievances with President...

In the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, children are outside playing and many people are going to the shops safely for the first time in months thanks to a partial halt to the war that is providing relief even if most doubt that peace will take hold. "Look at the markets. Where...