At least 21 people, including 9 children and 6 women, were killed on Saturday when Syrian air force carried out deadly air strikes on rebel-held towns of Wadi Barada region near Damascus, activists and monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 13 civilians, including 4...

A Syrian rebel group said on Saturday a ceasefire was over between insurgents and the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in a town near the Lebanese border and two villages in the northwest. Ahmed Qara Ali, spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham insurgent group, said rebel groups had...

  (NOW)- A treasure trove of documents leaked from multinational bank HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary have revealed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s powerful cousin Rami Makhlouf was involved in shady business dealings with an Israeli national.   Alaraby Aljadeed on...

The United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. "We have credible...