Russia told the United Nations on Monday it was "outraged" by allegations that it had killed civilians in Syria and destroyed civilian infrastructure as a U.S.-based rights group accused Moscow's air force of bombing 10 medical facilities in October. Russia launched air strikes...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leishmaniasis, or “Aleppo boil”, has spread among the regime's soldiers and other militias  in the eastern countryside of central Homs province, the outskirts of Palmyra city and the center. The spread of the disease among a large number of...

(The Guardian)- Who would want to be a woman in Aleppo? The female population of Syria’s second city find themselves threatened both by the murderous misogynists of Islamic State (Isis) and the Russian allies of the president, Bashar al-Assad, whose bombing raids mean that now even bad...

About 25,000 people are wounded each month in escalating warfare in Syria and it getting harder to deliver medical supplies for civilians trapped in areas held by Islamic State insurgents, the World Health Organization said on Friday. It said typhoid and diarrhea are on the rise due to the lack...