The United Nations called Tuesday for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Syria of at least one month as heavy air strikes were reported to have killed at least 30 people in rebel-held areas near Damascus and in the northwest. Separately, U.N. war crimes experts said in Geneva that...

The death toll from Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus Tuesday has risen to 33, a monitoring group said. Strikes on several locations in the besieged area east of the capital also wounded more than 100 people, the Syrian Observatory for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After the opposition forces brought down a Sukhoi 25 fighter jet in northern Idlib province last Saturday, Moscow quickly accused Washington of supplying Stinger missiles, a portable anti-aircraft, to the Syrian opposition. The U.S. State Department denied the...

 Syrian regime attacks on Tuesday left 30 civilians dead -- and dozens more injured -- in Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb, according to Syrian civil-defense sources. The civilian death toll has steadily risen as Assad regime forces continue to strike residential areas in...