The United Nations called on Tuesday for full access to civilians inside and outside of Syria's eastern Ghouta to meet their urgent needs, after some 50,000 have fled in recent days. Another 104,000 are estimated to have been uprooted by fighting around the northern town of Afrin, where 10,000...

Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died in Kenya at the age of 45, after becoming a symbol of efforts to save his subspecies from extinction, a fate that only science can now prevent. When Sudan was born in 1973 in the wild in Shambe, South Sudan, there were about 700 of his...

A monitor said Tuesday three dozen pro-regime fighters were killed in a southern district of the capital as Daesh (ISIS) militants took control of it in a surprise nighttime attack. There was no immediate comment from the regime on the report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime forces have arrested a prominent commander of one of its pro-militias, following clashes with Tiger elite forces, sources said on Tuesday. Mahmoud Afifa along with 12 members of his militia were arrested after clashes with forces subordinated to Suhail...