Five members of the Syrian White Helmets were killed by masked gunman as they broke their Ramadan fast on Saturday morning, the group said. The rescue group said the assailants stormed their Al-Hader centre in the northern province of…

Putin’s diplomatic surge on Syria Maxim Suchkov writes May 10 that “one shouldn’t be surprised to see a high-level visitor or two from Syria or Iran to Russia rather soon,” after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to…

The United States-led air campaign to hunt down the last pockets of Islamic State militants in eastern Syria effectively ground to a halt in the past two months after the allies lost their most effective battleground partner, stalling a…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored cases of poisoning among citizens -including children and women- in Zamalka city, which is the stronghold of Rahman Corps in the Eastern Ghouta, where the Syrian Observatory documented the…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored tens of airstrikes by warplanes, amid artillery and missile shelling on areas in the Ghouta which is besieged by the regime forces, where the violent clashes continue between the regime…

From the top-floor sniper position in western Raqqa, members of a U.S.-backed militia scanned the ground for any signs of movement. “We have hot soup, we have bread: Come out and surrender,” one of the fighters said on a loudspeaker.…

'Hospitals aren’t functioning and heavy machinery is scarce,' Nadim Houry, director of the Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Programme with Human Rights Watch (HRW). As Syrian regime forces appear to have broken…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a copy of a statement issued by the Syria Democratic Forces, in which it confirmed the release of about 100 Internal Security Forces detainees in al-Raqqa, based on "the callings of a number…

Syrian refugees in Turkey have started heading home to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the close of Ramadan, after the Turkish government granted them a temporary right to return. Turkey has taken in some 3 million Syrian refugees…

The United Nation's children agency warned Friday that the fight for the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria is threatening the lives of more than 40,000 children, as overnight airstrikes on the city claimed the…