Bashar al-Assad's forces launched an airstrike on a civilian neighborhood on Tuesday, killing dozens of people. Photos by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

The first shipment of chemical weapons material has left Syria, according to the UN. The joint mission overseeing the disarmament, the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said on Tuesday that the materials had been moved from two sites to the port of...

Cuff tended to favor of al-Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa over the infighting with Islamist rebels, local activists told Zaman Alwasl. Main Islamic Front Unit, Ahrar al-Sham movement has retreated due to the big reinforcements to...

  Rebel fighters were laying siege Monday to al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in their northern stronghold of Raqqa, managing to free 50 people they had detained, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Raqqa emerged as a new front Sunday in fighting between rebels...