HAMMURIYEH (AFP)- New air strikes and barrel bombs pounded Eastern Ghouta Sunday as regime forces pressed a three-week advance that splintered the rebel enclave and trapped dozens under collapsed buildings. Defying global calls for a ceasefire, the regime has pursued a ferocious...

Almost anything is more interesting than the massacre of civilians in Syria. Just look at today’s front pages. The Guardian leads on the slaughter of unarmed residents in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta, but for the rest it’s a mix of continuing scandals in international aid...

At least 80 people have been killed in just over 24 hours in suspected Russian and Syrian government shelling in the eastern and southern parts of Syria.  The majority of those killed were civilians.  In the eastern province of Deir Az Zor, suspected Russian warplanes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS-planted landmines have killed five civilians in eastern Raqqa city, local monitoring group said on Saturday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said 5 people had been killed in explosives left by ISIS militants. The radical group was defeated by the US-backed...