An air strike on a school in Eastern Ghouta late Monday killed 17 children and two women who were using its basement as a bomb shelter, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raid hit Arbin, a key town in a dwindling rebel-held pocket of Ghouta that has...

At least 20 civilians have died in a resumption of Syrian regime bombing on Douma, the largest town in shrinking rebel-controlled pockets of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said Monday. Thirteen were killed late Sunday in air strikes and artillery fire on the battered town, and another seven...

 More than 1,500 Kurdish fighters have been killed in a two-month assault by Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, a monitor said Sunday. Most of them were killed air strikes and artillery fire, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

The United Nations failed to prevent violence raging in Syria, including the assault on the Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave, the head of Syria's main opposition group alleged on Saturday. Nasr al-Hariri, president of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) blamed the UN for the crimes...