Residents of a village in the country side of Raqqa province in northeast Syria have said that oil pollution has contaminated their supply of drinking water, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday. Last week, the residents of al-Asadiyah - a village in the outskirts of...

Kidnappers in southern Syria have released a boy they had held for over three months after his family paid ransom, state media reported Sunday. The case of eight-year-old Fawaz Quteifan shocked Syrians for weeks after his kidnappers released a video showing him screaming while being whipped...

Amman- A number of smugglers were killed and others injured as they attempted to infiltrate and smuggle drugs and firearms into the Kingdom from the Syrian territory on Friday, a source at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) said on Saturday. Two of the bodies of the smugglers who were...

Six people from the same family including two children were killed in a Syrian military artillery strike on a rebel-held village in northwest Syria on Saturday, opposition activists said. Residents said the family was outside their house enjoying sunny weather and drinking tea when the shell...