One person was killed and three wounded on Saturday in eastern Lebanon by rockets fired from neighbouring Syria, a security source told AFP. Four rockets hit the Nabi Uthman and Labweh areas, both of which are sympathetic to the Shiite Hezbollah movement, the source said. One...

 Syria rebels in Qalamoun have denied reports that Assad’s forces entered the embattled city of Yabroud. “Yabroud did not fall,” Yabroud local coordination said in statement posted online, “Assad's forces and Iran proxy Hezbollah have retreated due to the patriotic resistance of...

Syria's government has promised greater access for aid groups supporting millions of Syrians, but faster progress is needed to tackle a dire humanitarian crisis, the head of the United Nations children's agency said on Friday. UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake, speaking at a...

  Ashraf was born the very day the Syria conflict began: March 15, 2011. He is the seventh child in a family from Homs. Within a week of his birth, the conflict arrived in his neighbourhood. For months his family rarely left the house. Some days there was non-stop bombing, others were...