(Reuters) - A U.S.-led alliance launched air strikes against Islamic State on Thursday in an area of northeast Syria where the militants are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported. The Syrian Observatory...

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(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Wednesday with French parliamentarians, the first such meeting since France closed its embassy in 2012 and announced that Syria's leader had lost all legitimacy. The trip was not approved by the French parliament's foreign...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Hepatitis A is spreading in Wadi Barada area threatening the sources of drinking water supplying Damascus city, as cases of the disease hit 50 one. The infection had spread before in Southern Damascus towns...