Fighting in northwestern Syria has displaced nearly 140,000 people since February, the UN said on Wednesday, as the regime and its ally Russia have stepped up their bombardment. "Since February, over 138,500 women, children and men have been displaced from northern Hama and southern Idlib,"...

Israel and the United States are putting the financial squeeze on the Palestinian Authority, where opposition to a long-awaited U.S. peace plan and anger over Israeli sanctions remain strong. Analysts see steep cuts in U.S. aid to the Palestinians over the past year as an attempt to draw...

Three civilians have been killed and six others injured in regime attacks on residential areas in Syria’s northern de-escalation zones, local sources said on Wednesday.  The overnight airstrikes and shelling targeted Idlib province's towns of Termela, Keferin, Mintar as well as Hama...

Shelling of areas in northwestern Syria in the past three days has damaged a medical centre and put two hospitals out of service, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "The UN is deeply disturbed by three separate reported attacks on hospitals and health facilities in northwestern Syria,...