A newly formed U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance on Saturday launched an offensive against Islamic State in the northeast province of Hasaka, a day after the United States said it would send special forces to advise insurgents fighting the jihadists. It was the first declared...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people have been killed by Syrian regime in the northern countryside of Homs on Saturday, three of them passed away in a toxic-gas attack, activists said, reporting 35 suffocation cases. Homs Media Center said regime military had fired a missile carrying poisonous...

As his family crammed alongside strangers into a small, exposed makeshift tent in Syria near the border with Turkey, Mohammed Musa slept outside in the mud through the first heavy rainfalls of autumn. A week earlier the 24-year-old, his wife, child, parents and siblings fled...

At least 91 people, including 17 children, were killed on Friday in attacks on opposition strongholds in the north and outside Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The deaths came as top diplomats from 17 countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, met for the first...