BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government is still indiscriminately bombing civilians with explosives-filled barrels in defiance of a U.N. Security Council resolution, an international human rights group said Wednesday. Human Rights Watch's statement came as the Security Council is...

Translation by Dani Murad As clashes continue to rage in Eastern Ghouta between Islamic factions and regime's army, and in an attempt from the latter to storm into the town of Maliha, the town of “Zebdin” was caught in the midst of this aggressive attack, when Assad’s...

BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town near the Turkish border Saturday, killing and wounding a number of people hours after Syrian rebels shot down a helicopter gunship over a slum in the northern city of Aleppo, activists said. The Aleppo Media Center...

Al Jazeera- Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 12-hour humanitarian truce to begin at 8am (05:00 GMT) on Saturday to pause hostilities in Gaza. Hamas said that it and other armed groups in Gaza had reached "national consensus on a humanitarian truce". Israel later confirmed...