An escalation in attacks on northwest Syria has displaced more than 150,000 people in the past week, the UN said on Tuesday, as the regime and Russia stepped up bombardment. "We are alarmed by ongoing reports of aerial attacks on population centres and civilian infrastructure, resulting in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ammar al-Sheikh Haidar, former detainee and political dissident, has decided to go on a silent hunger strike and to sit in front of the Canadian consulate in Istanbul on Monday to protest against the freezing of his settlement file.  “I am no more than a burden...

 Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies pounded the rebel-held northwest with fresh air strikes Saturday, the fifth day of a widening campaign that has killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee, sources in the area and a war monitor said. The upsurge in violence in...

 Turkey-backed Syrian rebels launched an offensive into territory held by the Kurdish YPG militia north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday, seizing some territory before heavy shelling forced them to retreat. The operation marked an escalation on one of the most complicated...