Syrian children have suffered the "sharpest and most rapid" decline in education standards in the history of the region, UN and aid agencies said in a report published Friday. "Nearly three years of brutal conflict in Syria have reversed more than a decade of progress in children's...

 Islamist rebels linked to al Qaeda kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians on Friday from a village near the Turkish border in Aleppo province, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters entered...

 Syrian opposition leaders called on Western and Arab allies on Friday to give them funding to reorganise their forces after Islamist fighters seized some of their weapons. Monzer Akbik, chief of staff in the Syrian National Coalition, said an attack by Islamists on warehouses and...

The British-based Human Rights Observatory has sparkled Syrian activists outrage over lack of credibility and partiality to Assad regime despite of describing it by Reuters as pro-opposition.  Ghazwan al-Hakim, prominent field doctor in rebel-held areas in eastern...