The United Nations said Friday there were "alarming reports" that Kurdish forces are blocking civilians from leaving the Syrian enclave of Afrin faced with a looming siege, and could be using them as "human shields". The U.N. rights office said it had been receiving "deeply...

At least 60 civilians were killed Friday and hundreds more injured when Syrian regime and Russian warplanes struck a crowded market in Eastern Ghouta with incendiary bombs. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the town of Kafr Batna, warplanes had targeted the town’s...

Heavy airstrikes targeted a rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, killing 10 people in the town of Saqba, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory said Russian jets carried out the strikes, citing its activist network on the ground. Advancing Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Islam on Thursday denied reports of reaching an evacuation deal with Russia from the stricken town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta suburbs. Yaser Delwan, head of the Political Bureau in the key Islamist group, said on his official Twitter account that social media...