(Reuters) -  Syria n government forces and allied militia have repelled an insurgent attack on a village in western Syria of strategic importance to both sides, with dozens of combatants killed, a monitoring group said on Thursday. A Syrian military source also said the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed Life conditions of people under siege in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus have become extremely difficult as most of essential services and needs are rare or not available, Medicine and treatment have been significantly affected by the difficult...

Aid agencies said on Thursday that 2014 was the worst year of the Syrian conflict so far and that three United Nations Security Council resolutions aimed at alleviating the suffering had failed. Syria's crisis started in March 2011 with protests against the government and...

The body doubles and counter-surveillance were just the start. To bring a documentarian of Assad’s atrocities to Congress, Syrian activists had to grapple with the State Department, too. In the morning hours of July 31, 2014, a former Syrian military police photographer with...