Twenty-seven people were killed and 58 injured in the Syrian capital Damascus Tuesday after mortar shelling from the rebels-held area, TASS news agency reported, citing Russia's Defense Ministry.

(AFP) -  Syria and its ally Russia have threatened to resume bombing the final opposition holdout of Douma in Eastern Ghouta unless rebels there agree to evacuate, sources told AFP on Tuesday. Jaish al-Islam, the powerful Islamist faction that holds Douma, had hoped that talks...

A fifth convoy of vehicles carrying civilians and opposition fighters from the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta arrived in the Hama province in west-central Syria on Tuesday.  According to Anadolu Agency correspondents in Eastern Ghouta, some 122 buses and seven vehicles reached...

A Turkish court Tuesday ruled that two Greek soldiers charged with espionage and illegally entering the country would remain in jail, in defiance of European Union pressure for their release, reports said. The pair were arrested on March 2 for entering a military zone in the northern...