(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights has published its periodic death toll report for the month of May 2017 in which it documented the killing of 964 civilians at the hands of the parties to the conflict in Syria. The report sheds light on the de-escalation zones agreement...

About 10,000 civilians have fled to a camp just north of ISIS' bastion of Raqqa with hundreds more arriving each day as the battle for the city nears, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Residents are escaping Raqqa under cover of night as U.S.-backed forces close in, taking...

Russia said on Thursday it was systematically bombing any ISIS militants trying to flee Syria's Raqqa and had carried out two such bombing runs in the last week. A U.S.-led coalition is supporting an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias in their campaign to capture Raqqa city, ISIS'urban...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was quick to launch air strikes on militants in Libya in response to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt - but the attacks do not seem to be targeting those responsible. The response was popular with many Egyptians. The country's state-owned...