The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and missing in Syria's civil war. The war began six years ago on Wednesday with protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government. It has since dragged in...

(Los Angeles Times)- As the war in Syria grinds into its seventh year this week, a vital building block of the country’s future has fallen victim to the carnage: the education of its children. About 1.75 million children and youth in Syria are out of school and most are up to six...

They Syrian army and its allies gained control of an arterial road in a small rebel pocket in northeast Damascus early on Monday, bringing them close to splitting the enclave in two, activists said. The advance was along a road that links the besieged districts of Barzeh, Qaboun and Tishrin...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people were killed in the ISIS-held city of Deir Ezzor when regime forces pounded al-Hamidiya neighborhood with surface-to-surface missile, local activist said Sunday. Ahmed Ramadhan, Deir Ezzor-based activist, said the missiles attack accompanied with regime...