A barbed wire-topped fence encircles a section of this bleak UN-run camp, isolating thousands of recent arrivals - whom Jordan considers a potential security risk - from other Syrian refugees. This camp-within-a-camp, called “Village…

mar Mateen, the gunman who killed and wounded more than 100 people at a nightclub in Florida, had been in contact withAmerica’s first suicide bomber in Syria. The 29-year-old American citizen whose parents had immigrated from…

The activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in several mosques in al-Mayadin and the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, monitored the preachers of the "Islamic State" in sermons of Friday prayers speaking about the Islamic…

Syrian rebels have reopened a vital supply line by capturing two villages from the Islamic State jihadist group as it came under pressure on a range of fronts in Syria and Iraq. IS has controlled large areas of both countries…

Syrian rebels reopened a vital supply line by capturing two villages Wednesday from the Islamic State jihadist group as it came under pressure on a range of fronts in Syria and Iraq. IS has controlled large areas of both…

Russian warplanes did not hit the Syrian town of Ashara in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor on Monday where at least 17 people were reportedly killed in an air raid, Russia’s Defence Ministry said in a statement. Russia’s air forces…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) monitoring group says forty-two civilians have been killed in aerial raids in the north of Syria. There are conflicting reports about who conduced the attacks. Video footage showed…

A humanitarian convoy reached a starved suburb of Syria's capital for the first time since 2012 on Wednesday but did not bring any food, as the opposition called for a countrywide cease-fire for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and aid…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius indicated Friday that his country is open to working with Syrian government troops to combat the Islamic State militant group, a suggestion that has angered the Syrian opposition. "There are two…

Izmir, Turkey: A new exodus of Syrians is fuelling the extraordinary flow of migrants and refugees to Europe as Syria's four-year-old war becomes the driving force behind the greatest migration of people to the continent since World War II.…