A Syrian rebel alliance agreed to a three-day nationwide ceasefire announced by the Syrian army on Wednesday and the United States voiced hope a more significant truce could be achieved, though fighting and air attacks continued. The truce was the first to be declared across the whole country...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has sent more fighter jets to Qamishli airport northeastern Syria from the airports of ad Dumeir and Ash Sha’irat, military sources said. The source confirmed that the regime airplanes were sent, “as a result of the Russian...

More Syrian refugees in the Middle East are falling into debt and facing poverty, partly as a result of exhausting their savings with shortages of essential aid worsening their plight, U.N. agencies and local governments said on Tuesday. Some 70 percent of refugees in Lebanon are...

A suicide bomb blast claimed by Islamic State killed at least 16 people in the mostly Kurdish-controlled city of Hasaka in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, the monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attacker detonated his explosives at a bakery. Several other people...