Gen. Jayez Mousa, Commander of Dumeir Military airbase, most powerful airport in Syria, has threatened to wipe off the city of   Dumeir, 46 km (30 miles) east Damascus unless the rebels give up fighting on the enclaves of the desert city and give back the...

Assad airstrikes have used barrel bombs for the second day on rebel-held areas of Syria's second city of Aleppo, activists said. At least 125 people killed and injured scores of others on bloody Sunday, Al Jazeera's reporter in the northern city reported.  Residents on...

It is a 15-minute drive from the five-star hotel that houses U.N. aid staff in Damascus to rebel-held suburbs where freezing children are starving to death. Yet it is months since convoys from the United Nations and other agencies have delivered food or medical care to many such areas...

The first United Nations aid flight from Iraq to Syria took off on Sunday after being delayed for several days due to bad weather, an AFP journalist said. The plane departed the Arbil airport in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region around 3:30 pm (1230 GMT), and was expected to arrive in...