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Families huddle below ground as winter grips Syria

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...

At Syria border, Jordanians dash over for cheap shopping

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,...