Syrian campaigners on Thursday named one of the victims of the devastating west London apartment block fire as Mohammed Alhajali, a 23-year-old refugee who lived on the 14th floor of the tower. Alhajali came to Britain with his brother in 2014 and was a civil engineering student at West...

Air strikes hit rebel-held districts east of Damascus Thursday for the first time in weeks after shells landed in parts of the capital controlled by the Syrian government, a Reuters witness and a war monitor said. Fighting and bombardment around Damascus have eased significantly since...

A U.N. humanitarian aid adviser for Syria says trucks are being prepared to ship polio vaccine into ISIS-held areas of Deir al-Zor governorate following confirmation of a "very dangerous" outbreak of the virus. Jan Egeland made the comments to reporters Thursday in the wake of the...

Syria has given the United Nations permission to get aid to the Kurdish-dominated city of Qamishli by truck, the organization said on Wednesday, relieving the strain on a base supporting thousands displaced by the war with ISIS. Although Qamishli lies on the Turkish border, the crossing is...