Rockets fired by jihadists Sunday killed six civilians and wounded eight others in the regime-held northern city of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported. It said two neighbourhoods were struck in the "terrorist rocket attack" and that one rocket hit the municipal building in the city,...

Last summer Rida, a 29-year-old father of three from Syria, decided it was time to cross the border from Lebanon and head back home. His native city of Homs had been devastated during Syria’s civil war, but seven years after he fled it was back under the control of forces loyal to President...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions on Wednesday have taken control of a town and its strategic hilltop in the northwestern Hama province, inflicting humiliating defeat on regime forces and allied militias, local activists said. Seizing the town of al-Hamameyat in the northern...

A Palestinian family was evicted from a home in east Jerusalem near the Old City on Wednesday after Israeli settlers won a court battle that stretched more than two decades, activists said. The apartment in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan was home to a 53-year-old woman and her four...