The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Syria's northwest province of Idlib, as Western powers challenged Syria and its ally Russia to provide assurances that attacks on hospitals and schools would stop. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on Friday, UN...

The United Nations said Friday the potential of a full scale battle in Syria's Idlib province could result in the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century. Mark Lowcock, the UN's under-secretary-general and emergency relief coordinator, said any operation with full military force...

On the U.S. Caesar Act  that seeks turn up the financial pressure on Bashar Assad  and his regime ,  Zaman al-Wasl has interviewed Samir Seifan,  a  prominent Syrian Economist, to shed the light  on most controversial issues of the Syrian economy....

Dozens of international aid groups say conditions in Syria's northwest have reached "crisis point" and are calling for an immediate end to the fighting. The aid groups said, in an appeal issued Friday, violence has displaced an estimated 180,000 people in the last two weeks. The clashes...