12/01/2016

The World Health Organization's representative for Syria said Tuesday she is hopeful the government will grant the agency's request to send teams to the besieged town of Madaya to assess the level of malnutrition and set…

Aid has begun to arrive in besieged town; health experts say door-to-door checks on starving civilians needed The suffering in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya is the worst seen in thecountry's civil war, the United…

The World Health Organization has asked the Syrian government for permission to send mobile clinics and medical teams to the besieged town of Madaya to assess the extent of malnutrition and evacuate the worst cases, its representative…

Accusing the Russians of being responsible for the deaths of dozens of children in an Aleppo air strike on Monday Syria's opposition coordinator, Riad Hijab, said that the opposition simply cannot negotiate with the Syrian regime of…

Syria’s army and allied forces “took full control” on Tuesday of the rebel-held town of Salma, in the northwestern province of Latakia, state television reported. In a breaking news flash, the channel said the army, backed by the…

At least eight children were killed along with their teacher in a Russian air strike that hit a school in Syria's Aleppo province on Monday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike in the…

An aid convoy entered the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya on Monday, where more than two dozen people are reported to have starved to death. Humanitarian aid also entered the Shiite villages of Foua and Kafraya in Idlib province.…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Syria needs to start working on a new constitution as a first step to finding a political solution to its civil war, though he acknowledged the process was likely to be difficult. Putin, who…

The United Nations (UN) has asked the Syrian government to allow hundreds of people to be evacuated from Madaya. Convoys were sent to deliver aid to the town where people have been starving to death. The UN said Monday the…

(CNN)The first shipment of foreign aid since October reached the besieged Syrian city of Madaya on Monday, bringing starving residents to tears at the sight, a United Nations source told CNN. According to SANA, Syria's state news…