The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, including a middleman it alleged buys oil for the regime from the Islamic State group. "The Syrian government is responsible for widespread brutality and violence against...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Anadolu Agency)- Turkey on Wednesday released a recording of warnings given to the Russian warplane later shot down on the Turkey-Syria border. In the recording, the Turkish Air Force command center in Diyarbakir warns the approaching flight to change course to the south....

In a report issued this week, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that more than 20,000 women had been killed in Syria’s ongoing civil conflict, including around 19,000 slain by Syrian regime forces. Publication of the report coincided with the International Day for the...

Russia n and Syrian special forces rescued one of the pilots of a Russian warplane shot down by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border, Syrian state media reported on Wednesday. The state news agency SANA said the pilot, whose Su-24 jet came down in  Syria n territory on Tuesday,...