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CAIRO – Syrians are outraged over the formation of an armed women's battalion by the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) in Syria's al-Raqa Province. "The rejection of ISIL is growing in al-Raqa, especially after the formation…

Hezbollah is suffering dramatic losses in fighting in Syria, particularly around the key rebel-held town of Yabroud, in the Qalamoun Mountains, Lebanese newspaper Daily Star has reported. While the Lebanon-based Hezbollah announced the…

Pro-opposition activists in the Yabroud region said Monday that rebels had fended off the latest attempts by the regime to storm the area, in the wake of a deal that saw 13 Lebanese nuns exchanged for a number of female detainees. Regime…

"After three years of conflict and turmoil, Syria is now one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a child," said the UNICEF report. "In their thousands, children have lost lives and limbs, along with virtually every aspect of their…

AFP – As Syria’s conflict enters its fourth year, ravaging the country and creating a massive humanitarian crisis, President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime is on the offensive to regain territory from a divided opposition. Diplomatic efforts by…

DAMASCUS: Three suicide bombers detonated their explosives belts in a local administration building in a Kurdish town in northeastern Syria Tuesday, killing at least five people, the state-run news agency and a Kurdish official said.…

The number of children affected by the civil war in Syria has more than doubled over the past year, with hundreds of thousands of young Syrians trapped in besieged parts of the country, the United Nations Children's Fund said. "After…

Reef Dimashq province: 3 fighters from Islamic battalions killed by clashes against regime forces supported by NDF and Hezbollah around Yabroud city. a man from Qalamoun died by wounds sustained yesterday. regime forces…

Damascus province: a man from the Yarmouk camp,killed by regime's bombardment on areas in the camp . Der'a province: a rebel fighter killed in unknown circumstances, in addition to another one killed by clashes…

The report, A Devastating Toll, looks at the impact of three years of war on the health of the country's children. "We received a little girl with critical injuries; we could do nothing but wait for her to die because we didn't have the…