A Russian-brokered deal has been reached to evacuate a Syrian rebel group from a town in Eastern Ghouta to opposition-held northwestern Syria in the first such deal in the last remaining rebel bastion near the capital, two opposition sources said on Wednesday. Fighters from the Ahrar...

An air strike on a school in Eastern Ghouta late Monday killed 17 children and two women who were using its basement as a bomb shelter, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raid hit Arbin, a key town in a dwindling rebel-held pocket of Ghouta that has...

At least 20 civilians have died in a resumption of Syrian regime bombing on Douma, the largest town in shrinking rebel-controlled pockets of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said Monday. Thirteen were killed late Sunday in air strikes and artillery fire on the battered town, and another seven...

More than 150,000 civilians have fled the city of Afrin in northern Syria since Wednesday evening to escape a Turkish-led military offensive against a Kurdish militia, a war monitor said. "There was fierce fighting throughout the night on the northern outskirts of the city as the...