The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special session on the worsening situation in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday after a formal request from Britain, a United Nations statement said. Britain made the request on behalf of a core group of 11 Western and Arab countries,...

This farming village east of Mosul was turned into a bunker during more than two years of Islamic State rule: A network of tunnels and cramped living quarters betrays an extremist group increasingly forced to operate underground by a punishing air campaign and mounting territorial losses....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 people, including woman and two children, have been killed in regime air strikes on the besieged northern countryside of Homs city, local reporter said Tuesday. The regime warplanes have carried out 4 raids on the towns of Talbiseh, Zafraneh, leaving 6 people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's fighter jets using vacuum missiles hit a hospital in northern Idlib province, causing huge destruction in the only medical center in Serja town, local activists said Tuesday. 5 medics have been wounded in the attack on al-Iman hospital east of Jabal al-Zawiya area,...