France on Friday condemned Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies for targeting Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta region, despite an adoption of UN Security Council resolution late last month, which called for a 30-day cease-fire. "France condemns the continued intensification of the...

An aid convoy into Syria's eastern Ghouta Friday unloaded all its aid in the opposition-held area's main town of Douma and crossed back into government-held territory, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria told Reuters. The convoy consisted of 13 trucks of food supplies...

Hundreds of Canadian doctors, medical specialists and residents, as well as medical students, have signed a petition protesting their own pay raises, instead asking that the money be reallocated to help nurses and patients in need.  "We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong...

Syrian forces pursued a relentless air and ground offensive against Eastern Ghouta Thursday, moving closer to retaking the rebel enclave but also depriving desperate civilians of vital aid.  More than 900 civilians have been killed in the nearly three-week assault on the last...