The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Friday on a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded. The resolution would allow attacks directed at extremists from the Islamic State group and...

Syrian government warplanes supported by Russia continued their relentless bombardment of the rebel-controlled eastern suburbs of Damascus for a sixth day Friday, killing nine people, opposition activists and a war monitor reported. The death toll from the past week climbed to more than 400....

The UN special envoy for Syria on Friday reiterated his call for immediate cease-fire amid "horrific" bombings in besieged Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus. Staffan De Mistura called on guarantor countries Turkey, Russia and Iran for an immediate meeting for re-establishing "tension...

A four-year-old girl was killed in an airstrike that targeted an orphanage in Syria’s besieged Eastern Ghouta district, a suburb of Damascus, Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said Thursday. The orphanage, established in early 2017, is jointly run by the IHH and the...