A four-year-old girl was killed in an airstrike that targeted an orphanage in Syria’s besieged Eastern Ghouta district, a suburb of Damascus, Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said Thursday. The orphanage, established in early 2017, is jointly run by the IHH and the...

The death toll for five days of bombardment by the Syrian regime and its allies on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta passed the 400 mark Thursday, a monitor said. "Five days of air strikes and intense artillery fire by the regime and its Russian ally have killed 403 civilians,...

At least 250 civilians have reportedly been killed in Syria’s regime-besieged Eastern Ghouta district, a suburb of Damascus, within the last three days. Since Tuesday, regime forces have stepped up attacks on Eastern Ghouta using barrel bombs, artillery fire and other types of...

Russia is ready to consider a 30-day ceasefire in Syria but only if it does not cover Daesh (ISIS), Nusra Front and other groups "who are shelling residential quarters of Damascus", Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted Thursday as saying. Lavrov's comments, made during a visit to...