A severe siege imposed on Qudssaya city, near Damascus four days ago by Assad's forces in response to Army officer killing by rebels, who targeted his checkpoint, according to sources. A humanitarian crisis is a waiting more than 400 thousand people in this...

Syria  has agreed a new timetable to remove its chemical weapons by late April after failing to meet a deadline to ship out the arsenal earlier this month, diplomats said on Wednesday. Under a U.S.-Russian deal reached after a chemical weapons attack killed hundreds of people...

Scores of Islamist fighters were killed in an army ambush in the Eastern Ghouta area of the capital Damascus, Syria's national news agency SANA said on Wednesday. Captain Islam Alloush, Military spokesman of the Islamic Front claimed that most of 45 victims were civilians trying to...

Pictures emerge of thousands of residents of the Damascus district of Yarmouk, who have remained trapped for nearly a year, queuing for food and aid A picture showing thousands of residents queuing for food has revealed shocking levels of deprivation inside a beseiged camp in Syria....