General leadership of rebels command in Eastern Ghotua in statement issued today said more than 800 militant of the forces loyal to Basher al-Assad have been killed in Ghouta recent battles.   The statement said that rebels had captured 44 armored vehicles  and...

The number of Syrian refugees in the Middle East will nearly double over the next year to exceed four million, the United Nations said Monday as it launched its appeal for funds. Another 9.3 million people are expected to be in need of aid inside the war-ravaged nation by the end of...

It is a 15-minute drive from the five-star hotel that houses U.N. aid staff in Damascus to rebel-held suburbs where freezing children are starving to death. Yet it is months since convoys from the United Nations and other agencies have delivered food or medical care to many such areas...

A Syrian toddler died Sunday when a fire ripped through the family tent in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a security official told AFP.   "Mahmud al-Arfan, who was 18 months old, was burned alive when the tent where his family lived caught fire," the official...