More than 9,000 people have been killed since the conflict in Ukraine began, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that even though fighting had abated, millions were in precarious situations. The UN human rights office hailed "a sharp de-escalation of hostilities" in the conflict zones in...

(Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)-  Syrian rebel forces on Wednesday began evacuating the last district they hold in the central city of Homs under a deal with the regime, sending out dozens of civilians, a monitor said. "The first bus of civilians has left Waer," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the...

The powerful Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Wednesday that a Syrian opposition meeting in Saudi Arabia must insist that President Bashar al-Assad face justice and that Syria's "institutions of oppression" are dismantled. The group, whose founders had links to...

Syria has become the pre-eminent global incubator for a new generation of militants after Islamist groups more than doubled their recruitment of foreign fighters to as much as 31,000 over the past 18 months, according to a former British spy chief. In the chaos of Syria's...