The United Nations has voiced deep concern over the escalating violence in northwestern Syria, which poses an increasing risk to civilians. Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the ongoing fighting caused the death and injury to dozens of...

Syria's Hend Zaza was just five when she first picked up a table tennis paddle, and now the 12-year-old is the youngest person to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. Zaza shot to fame overnight in her war-torn country last year after beating a Lebanese rival in her forties to win the West Asia...

Far right activist Tommy Robinson has lost a libel case brought against him by a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school. The English Defence League founder – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – was sued by Jamal Hijazi after he posted two videos containing false...

Syrian regime artillery shells struck a village in the last rebel enclave in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing seven members of the same family, including four children, rescue workers and a war monitor said.   The shelling is part of an ongoing military escalation...