Russian airstrikes targeted the main hospital of Dael in southern Daraa on Saturday night, killing and wounding medics and patients and forcing services to stop, local activists said. The vacuum missiles attack on the medical facility comes as rebels made gains against regime forces and allied militias in the Old City of Daraa. Most hospitals […]

This week marked the end of the sixth year of the war in Syria. On this terrible anniversary we examine the deepening economic, social and other divisions that make it so difficult for refugees to return to Aleppo, the city that has become a bellwether for the country’s future. In late January, a train to eastern

The World Health Organization has demanded access to Eastern Ghouta to deliver aid to 300,000 besieged people there, Reuters reported. The health situation is rapidly deteriorating in the rebel enclave outside the capital, where the area’s three hospitals are no longer functioning. Time is running out for the people of East Ghouta. As health needs

The 7-year-old Syrian girl whose tweets gave a harrowing look at the crisis in Aleppo over the last few months took questions with her mother on Facebook, one week after the family was evacuated from the war-wracked city. In the session, Bana al-Abed and her mother, Fatemah, said it was their hope to return to

A senior Russian general on Tuesday accused the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of targeting Syria’s infrastructure — including a key dam — in territory held by extremist group. Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the military’s General Staff said the coalition was trying to “completely destroy critical infrastructure in Syria and complicate post-war reconstruction as much