CAIRO (dpa)- At least 29 civilians died in fierce attacks by Syrian government forces on a besieged rebel-held area near Damascus during the past two days, a monitoring group said Sunday. Those...
BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa)– The Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent have evacuated the third and last group of critically sick people from a besieged rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus...
Cairo – A Saudi-led air alliance fighting rebels in Yemen has accused a UN humanitarian official of bias in favour of Houthi rebels after he reported civilian deaths from airstrikes in the...
BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah and Ramadan Al-Fatash (dpa)- About 39,000 people, including 10,507 civilians, were killed in the war in Syria in 2017, a monitoring group reported on Thursday. The fatalities...
MOSCOW (dpa)- Russia has shifted its focus in Syria to rooting out an al-Qaeda-linked group, following the defeat of the Islamic State extremist group in the war-torn country, Russian Foreign...
MOSCOW (dpa)- The Russian military has begun establishing a permanent presence at Syria's Tartus naval facility and Hmeimim airbase, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday. "Last week...
BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa)- The Syrian opposition has rejected Russia's planned Sochi conference on Syria, suggesting that it is aimed at side-stepping UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva to end the...
ROME, Alvise Armellini (dpa)- Pope Francis issued a plea for global peace and decried the "winds of war" around the world in his traditional Christmas Day message on Monday, also calling for a...
BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa) - Islamic State's control of villages in eastern Syria is decreasing day by day, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told dpa on Monday....
MOSCOW (dpa)- Russia will host Syrian peace talks between that country's government and opposition groups for the first time next month in the southern city of Sochi, according to a statement Friday....