The Red Cross is delivering assistance to greater numbers of Syrian civilians and visiting more detainees in government prisons but the situation remains "dramatic" in besieged areas, a senior official said Tuesday. Robert Mardini, regional director for the Near and Middle East, said that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people killed on Monday in ballistic missile attack on al-Sukkari neighborhood in northern Aleppo city, medics and activists say. A family of three members were among the casualties as 20 more people were wounded, said Dr. Abu Jafar Kahil, the head of forensic...

Rebel fighters and officials in a besieged Syrian town on the outskirts of Damascus believe government forces are preparing an assault after they turned back an aid convoy last week. Daraya, situated close to a large air base and just a few kilometers (miles) from President Bashar al-Assad's...

ISIS has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, including almost half of what it had once held in Iraq. The Defense Department had previously estimated that ISIS fighters had lost control of about 40 percent of the territory they...