United Nations  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had asked his Syria mediator to "focus much more to re-launch a political process" in a bid to end the four-year civil war that has killed some 220,000 people and displaced millions. Mediator Staffan...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -  United Nations  officials warned on Wednesday of a potential "slaughter of innocents" unless aid and assistance reached a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where thousands of civilians are trapped up in a vicious battle....

(Editing by Yusra Ahmed) Ayham Ahmed, the pianist who sang with children in roads of Yarmouk camp during its siege, tells the world: “we are people love peace, don’t want war, please give us the peace, give us the childhood.”  In those few words, Ahmed faces the world...

  The Commander of Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, in special statement to Zaman al-Wasl, said his rebel group was defeated by the Islamic State in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus due to the complicity of al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, and the weakness of allied groups. Abu Ahmed Mushir...