Childhood malnutrition levels in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, which has been under government siege since 2013, are at the highest levels recorded in the country since its six-year war began, the UN said on Wednesday. The UN children's agency UNICEF said a November survey in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Several executives of the French-Swiss cement maker Lafarge were investigated on Wednesday by the SNDJ (judicial customs) on financial links to extremist groups in Syria, including Daesh (ISIS), France Inter Radio said. Some of them have already...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 civilians have been killed on Monday in renewed airstrikes on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Capital, local activists said. Monday’s strikes targeted Madyara suburb topping the death toll to 160 people, including 30 children, since the...

Syrian regime came under pressure Monday to fill in gaps in its declaration to the world's chemical weapons watchdog amid reports of toxic arms use during its six-year civil war, triggering angry Syrian denials. A fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of...