At least 12 people were killed in air strikes on the rebel-held western Syrian town of Rastan on Wednesday, a local doctor and a monitoring group said, despite a government-declared nationwide temporary truce. The British-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

 Rebel areas of Aleppo have stockpiled enough basic supplies to survive months of siege by Syrian pro-government forces that cut off their half of the city last week, even though some goods are running out, an opposition official said. Government forces backed by allies including...

One third of local authorities in England, reeling from years of austerity cuts, are not prepared to house any Syrian refugees, a media report said on Thursday, following a UK government pledge to resettle 20,000 Syrians by 2020. Official data shows that more than 1,800 Syrian refugees have...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Local sources said a Lebanese military checkpoint had arrested the Syrian journalist and activist Anas Idrees known on social media as Ahamd al-Qusaiyr. The sources said Ahmad has a valid legal status. Al-Qusaiyr is the spokesman of the General...