Dozens of civilians were killed as air strikes flattened residential buildings in rebel-held east Aleppo Monday, despite Western warnings of sanctions against Syria and Russia over attacks on the city. Once Syria's thriving commercial hub, Aleppo has been ravaged by bombing raids and...

(The Daily Star)- A suicide driver detonated a car packed with explosives at a security check-point south of Baghdad Monday, killing ten people and wounding 25, police and medical sources said. The blast happened as a convoy of Shi'ite paramilitary fighters drove past the check-point in...

Britain and France sought to persuade the European Union on Monday to condemn Russia's devastating air campaign in Syria and pave the way for imposing more sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad's government. After a weekend of U.S.-led diplomacy that failed to find a breakthrough, EU...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is planning to evacuate the town of Deir-Khobiya in the countryside of Damascus and displace its people as part of the demographic changes planned around Damascus city, after finishing the compulsory displacement from the capital suburbs of Qudsaya, Daraya...