Aid has been cut from rebel-held areas of Aleppo for the longest period since the Syrian civil war began due to an escalation in air strikes and bombardments, driving up food prices and choking efforts to ease the plight of residents. "For the last few weeks we have not been able to bring...

Turkish army howitzers have destroyed 17 Islamic State targets in northern Syria, military sources said early Wednesday. Speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media, the sources said the ISIS targets had been preparing to launch missile rockets...

 The opposition-held sector of Syria's divided city of Aleppo has been cut off from the outside world in recent days by an escalation of air and artillery strikes on the only road in, putting hundreds of thousands of people under effective siege. A government campaign to fully capture...

Writing by Abdul Salam Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al wasl)- Alaa Makhlouf, the personal assistant of Asma al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s wife, was killed, and different stories were told to explain his death. There are three scenarios point to the responsible for killing him: the...