The EU and UN on Wednesday rallied donor countries and aid groups to support a devastated Syria at a conference overshadowed by a suspected chemical attack blamed by the West on Damascus. The...
Russia says that a chemical gas that killed and injured dozens of civilians in a rebel-held town in northern Syria came from rebel weapons on the ground. Its defence ministry acknowledged that Syrian...
The White House condemned what it called a "reprehensible" and "intolerable" chemical attack in Syria Tuesday and pinned the blame squarely on Bashar al-Assad's regime. White House spokesman Sean...
The road to the Tabqa dam in northern Syria is strewn with evidence of the clashes being waged by a US-backed alliance of fighters against the Islamic State group. Bits of burned vehicles and the...
The US military provided air and artillery support -- and transported local forces -- in an offensive for a vitally important dam near the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa in Syria, officials...
A Syrian migrant went on trial in Austria on Wednesday for allegedly executing 20 wounded government soldiers in his home country. The 27-year-old was arrested in a refugee shelter in western Austria...
The current global political, and security environment remains chaotic, dangerous, and unstable. While the Obama Administration has done its best to address them, there is no doubt that the incoming...
Syrian rebel groups say they are suspending participation in the preparations for peace talks planned by Russia and Turkey for later this month. A statement, signed by a number of groups, cited...
Russia has called a US decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian opposition groups a "hostile act" that would directly threaten Russian military forces in Syria. Maria Zakharova, Russian foreign...
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence" as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human rights abuses...
In the last rebel-held pocket of Aleppo, residents were bidding a tearful farewell to their battleground city, expecting to evacuate, only to be plunged back into a familiar nightmare. "Bombing is...
France has accused Syria and its allies of using political uncertainty in the US to launch "total war" against opposition-held areas in the country and called for new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad's...
In November, Witness has a bumper lineup of acclaimed documentaries fresh off the international film festival circuit. These include Syria-set The Father, The Son and the Jihad, which screened at Hot...
Though Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin seem to agree on a number of issues, there is one they apparently don't see eye to eye on. While Trump argues that Hillary Clinton is too weak to be president...
South Africa is kicking Jacob Zuma and the ANC out of office. In Germany, Angela Merkel is losing ground because the people say so and Britain has closed itself out of the European market with the...
A day of intense airstrikes Saturday on and around the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 45 people, according to opposition activists. The Aleppo Media Center, an activist collective, said 45...
HI Dad. No need to reprimand me, I am sorry I haven't kept this yearly ritual, but let me see if I can redeem myself a little with this letter. So much I would like to share and discuss with you but...
