Hospitals in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo are overwhelmed with patients injured in an ongoing wave of airstrikes that have already killed more than 100 people, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...

Syria Islamist rebels denounced in statement, obtained by Zaman Alwasl, claims of killing over 80 civilians in the city of Adra al-Ummaliya northwest of Damascus. The statement denied also kidnapping some families in order to be used as human shields. Adra battle...

The Islamic Front and Syria Revolutionaries Front have signed reconciliation agreement in Idlib countryside, activists said. Sheikh Abdullah al-Hamawi, IF representative and Jamal Ma’rouf, commander of Syria Revolutionaries Front agreed to end up disputes after the...

The Syrian government excluded the largely rebel-held province of Deir al-Zor - where polio broke out this year - from a 2012 vaccination campaign, arguing that most residents had fled although hundreds of thousands were still there, a Reuters investigation shows. Public health...

 Syrian opposition rebels have acquiesced to the Assad army threats of committing genocide in Dumeir city, and they give back 150 corpses of forces loyal to Assad, local activists said. Gen. Jayez Mousa, Commander of Dumeir Military airbase, most Assad army powerful...

Syrian rebels have posted videos on YouTube showed dozens of bodies for Iraqi Shi’ite militias reportedly were killed in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus in what they called ‘Ghouta Epic’. General leadership of rebels command in Eastern Ghotua in statement issued today said...

The United Nations has appealed for a record $6.5 billion for Syria and its neighbours to help 16 million people, many of them hungry or homeless victims of a conflict that has lasted 33 months with no end in sight. The Syrian appeal accounted for half of an overall...

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...

Sweden's security police, SAPO, says at least 75 people have left the country to fight in Syria since mid-2012, more than doubling an estimate from earlier this year. The figures presented Monday underscore a trend seen across Europe of fighters joining al-Qaida-linked...

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...

  Gen. Jayez Mousa, Commander of Dumeir Military airbase, most powerful airport in Syria, has threatened to wipe off the city of   Dumeir, 46 km (30 miles) east Damascus unless the rebels give up fighting on the enclaves of the desert city and give back the...

Assad airstrikes have used barrel bombs for the second day on rebel-held areas of Syria's second city of Aleppo, activists said. At least 125 people killed and injured scores of others on bloody Sunday, Al Jazeera's reporter in the northern city reported.  Residents on...

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...

  Radical Islamic group, the State of Iraq and the Levant freed the leader of Hama province military council after days of abduction in Sarakeb in Idlib province, local sources said. Brigadier Ahmed Berri has been freed after a timeout was given to the ISIL...

A Syrian toddler died Sunday when a fire ripped through the family tent in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a security official told AFP.   "Mahmud al-Arfan, who was 18 months old, was burned alive when the tent where his family lived caught fire," the official...

The first United Nations aid flight from Iraq to Syria took off on Sunday after being delayed for several days due to bad weather, an AFP journalist said. The plane departed the Arbil airport in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region around 3:30 pm (1230 GMT), and was expected to arrive in...

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...

At least 78 people were killed and 200 others wounded in regime air raids on rebel districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, the Syrian Revolution Commission said. The Aleppo Media Centre (AMC), an activist network on the ground, reported several air attacks on...

Assad warplanes struck Dumeir city, east Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 26 people, including 2 women and 11 children, in a series of strikes with explosive barrels hit Dumeir, revolution local coordination said.    The strikes hit north neighborhood of the...

The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant launched 3 suicide bombings against forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the city of Deir Zour east Syria, ISIL said in statement issued yesterday. Al-Qaeda affiliated said that more than 1000 jihadists had involved in the battles...