After washing up her family’s dishes over a plastic basin, 11-year-old Cedra sits on the floor of the dank basement in Syria to tackle her day’s studies.A dark staircase leads from a street in the town of Al-Bab to the gloomy space that the young girl, her blind father and some 40 other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As the Syrian regime arrests hundreds of young men in the Eastern and southern suburbs of Damascus despite reconciliation deal reached in April, another dirty game the intelligence has been working on related to the values of the conservative society in Ghouta district....

Near the recently reopened border with Jordan, former Syrian rebel fighter Bahaa al-Masri sells date-filled pastries and sesame biscuits to Jordanians flocking across the frontier to snap up bargains. Syrian regime forces retook control of the Nassib border crossing from rebels in July,...

For dozens of French women detained in Syria, an impossible choice looms: keeping their children in a war zone, or sending them home knowing they might never see each other again. Like other Western nations which experienced a jihadist exodus to Iraq or Syria, France is grappling with...