A U.S. court ordered the government of Syria's Bashar al-Assad to pay $302 million dollars in reparations for the killing of an American correspondent. Marie Colvin was killed after the makeshift media center she was working in the Syrian city of Homs was blasted with artillery fire....

The United Nations on Friday called for "unhindered humanitarian access" to people fleeing the last pocket of Islamic State jihadists in eastern Syria. In the past week alone, the UN says more than 10,000 people have fled from the conflict zone to Al-Hol, where the main camp for people...

At least 197 civilians were killed in war-ravaged Syria in January, according to a monthly report released Friday by a London-based rights watchdog. In its report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that 57 children and 27 women had been among those killed during the first...

A U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C., late yesterday found the Syrian government culpable in the 2012 killing of Marie Colvin, a correspondent for the U.K. newspaper Sunday Times, and ordered the government to pay US$302.5 million to her family, AFP reported today. According to the opinion,...