The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday began debating a Western-Arab draft resolution that would demand humanitarian aid access to besieged areas in conflict-torn Syria, a text Russia has dismissed as "detached from reality." The text was prepared by Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan,...

The top U.S. intelligence chief said on Tuesday the war in  Syria  had created an "apocalyptic disaster" and said he was convinced that documents alleging torture and murder in the conflict were authentic. National Intelligence Director James Clapper Was asked by...

  18 fighters from Liwaa Al Tawhid have been killed by the State of Iraq and al-Sham's silencer guns in their sleep on Sunday in Aleppo, pro-ISIS social media pages said.  "Iraqi Sahwat war experience came to Syria," ISIS said in statement posted by ‘The...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "great shock" on Tuesday over reports of a massacre in the Syrian village of Maan. A statement released by Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said the UN leader was disturbed by reports of killings in Maan on February 9. "Dozens of...