A top White House official flew to Damascus for talks to free U.S. hostages believed to be held in Syria, people familiar with the matter said. (The Wall Street Journal)

“They sent us directly to the front lines. The situation is terrible. Terrible. There is fighting every day. We are charged with storming. There is no rest. There are many men missing and we can’t get to them,” explained Abdel Basit, a Syrian mercenary speaking from Azerbaijan (for their...

At the 27th edition of the Bayeux Clavadoes-Normandy Awards that took place on October 9 and 10, Syrian photographer and activist Anas Alkharboutli, from the German agency DPA, won the Young Reporter Trophy for his report entitled “The War in Syria.”  Instituted in 1994 on the...

Bombing of civilians by Syrian and Russian armed forces during a campaign against the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria may amount to crimes against humanity, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Thursday. The global rights group said it investigated dozens of "unlawful"...