Syrian regime aerial bombardment of rebel-held town of Harasta northeast of Damascus left at least 12 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The attacks on Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region, killed members of the town's council, civil defense, and police...

Gunmen fired on police outside an Istanbul palace and a bomb killed eight soldiers in the southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis as Turkey's leaders struggled to form a new government. The Istanbul governor's office said two members of a "terrorist group" armed with hand...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Rama al-Hamwi, a 30- year-old lady from Hama, a university graduated from Economy college in Aleppo, live difficult life as she suffers of cancer besides the war circumstances which limit her chances to receive treatment. ...

Syrian government forces recaptured four northwestern villages Tuesday as they pounded the area with airstrikes in a counter-attack on insurgents threatening strongholds of President Bashar Assad, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Government warplanes by Tuesday...