BEIRUT (AFP)- Bombardment by the Syrian regime and its ally Russia killed 25 civilians, among them three children, in the embattled rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta Wednesday, a monitor said. "At least 25 civilians including three children were killed on Wednesday, most of them in regime air...

GENEVA (Reuters)- Syria's war could still produce "tremendous battles" in its eighth year, even though the fight for the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta appears to be the latest in a string of "end battles", a senior U.N. adviser on Syria said Wednesday. Jan Egeland, head of the...

Local authorities outside Damascus say regime forces have cut off their town from a surrounding rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, isolating 20,000 residents with no access to aid. A member of the local council of Harasta said Wednesday that residents have been in underground shelters for long...

ANKARA (Reuters)- Turkish Recep President Tayyip Wednesday threatened to soon crush militants in northern Iraq, after his foreign minister last week said Ankara and Baghdad would carry out a joint offensive against Kurdish militants in Iraq. "We are checking the terror nests in northern...