The United Nations is ready to help people who might flee from the Afrin enclave, where Turkish troops are on the offensive against Kurdish fighters, the top U.N. official in Syria said Monday. Ali al-Zatari told The Associated Press in his office in western Damascus that they are...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish troops tried to cross the countries' border into the Afrin region on Sunday but were forced back. Birusk Hasaka, the YPG spokesman in Afrin, said Turkish forces were repulsed after fierce clashes with Syrian rebel factions. Another YPG...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of families in the city of Harasta have been living in shelters for 26 days to escape regime forces and Russian ally constant bombing of the city by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally. The children are without education and all schools have stopped functioning...

Concerned over the devastating impact of escalating violence in Syria, where dozens of people in eastern Ghouta have been killed in recent airstrikes, and schools and hospitals are being deliberately destroyed, senior United Nations officials have underscored the obligation on all parties to...