General leadership of rebels command in Eastern Ghotua in statement issued today said more than 800 militant of the forces loyal to Basher al-Assad have been killed in Ghouta recent battles.   The statement said that rebels had captured 44 armored vehicles  and...

The number of Syrian refugees in the Middle East will nearly double over the next year to exceed four million, the United Nations said Monday as it launched its appeal for funds. Another 9.3 million people are expected to be in need of aid inside the war-ravaged nation by the end of...

It is a 15-minute drive from the five-star hotel that houses U.N. aid staff in Damascus to rebel-held suburbs where freezing children are starving to death. Yet it is months since convoys from the United Nations and other agencies have delivered food or medical care to many such areas...

South Africa buried Nelson Mandela on Sunday, leaving the multi-racial democracy he founded without its living inspiration and still striving for the "Rainbow Nation" ideal of shared prosperity he had dreamed of. The Nobel peace laureate, who was held in apartheid prisons for 27 years...