The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Friday on a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded. The resolution would allow attacks directed at extremists from the Islamic State group and...

Syrian government warplanes supported by Russia continued their relentless bombardment of the rebel-controlled eastern suburbs of Damascus for a sixth day Friday, killing nine people, opposition activists and a war monitor reported. The death toll from the past week climbed to more than 400....

The UN special envoy for Syria on Friday reiterated his call for immediate cease-fire amid "horrific" bombings in besieged Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus. Staffan De Mistura called on guarantor countries Turkey, Russia and Iran for an immediate meeting for re-establishing "tension...

The Turkish army struck a convoy entering Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region, which Ankara said carried fighters and weapons but Kurdish forces said was made up of civilians entering with food and medicine. In a statement Friday, the Turkish military said a fleet of some 30-40 vehicles of the...