(Zaman, Al Wasl)- First cross-line convoy in November entered the hard-to-reach town of Rastan in central Homs province with aid for 107,500 people, U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday. Local activists said 51 vehicles carrying food rations entered the...

Containers of a chemical suspected to be chlorine were dropped by helicopters on rebel-held east Aleppo on Tuesday, causing breathing difficulties in some people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the local health authority said. The Britain-based war monitor said its network of...

In the past six months, the number of people living under siege in Syria has doubled. Today there are almost one million Syrians being “isolated, starved, bombed and denied medical attention and humanitarian assistance.” The latest figures from the UN come a week after deadly airstrikes by...

Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two Ukrainian army deserters. In a statement carried late Monday by local news agencies, the Russian defence ministry said servicemen Maxim Odintsov and...