The U.N. Security Council discussed the besieged towns of Syria after reports emerged that tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped for months without supplies and are starving to death. The meeting on Monday was called by New Zealand, Spain and France in response to the reports...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- 17 aid trucks on Monday have entered for embattled al-Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs, a move had been scheduled in the U.N.-brokered deal reached last month between rebels and the Syrian regime, activists said. Simultaneously, aid convoys have entered...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll has risen to 35, including 20 children, for Russian air strikes at a school in Syria's Aleppo province on Monday, monitor and activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the strike in the town of Anjara also injured at least 20 people, all...

The condition of a Palestinian journalist on a 48-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail is deteriorating, the man's wife and a Palestinian official said Monday. Mohammed al-Qeq is protesting his six-month sentence without trial or charge, under a measure called administrative detention....