The push to immunize all children against polio has been hampered by the ongoing crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. WHO and UNICEF have appealed to all parties to cooperate, including through temporary pauses in hostilities where needed, to allow vaccination campaigns to take place...

   Amid news of Assad’s advances in al-Nabk, one of the last rebel-held areas in Qalamoun, activists reported a mounting presence of Iraqi Shi’ite militias for the first time in battlefields far away from the Shiite shrines.    Thu al-Faqar...

Syrian regime forces made advances on Sunday in the town of al-Nabk, one of the last rebel-held areas in Qalamoun region bordering Lebanon, a watchdog said. “There is fierce fighting in al-Nabk between government forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, and...

At least 40 bodies of men, women and children were discovered on Saturday in the Syrian town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb, in an apparent new massacre, the Syrian Revolutionary Council reported, following a heavy shelling campaign by the regime’s army. The opposition...