When Rocket was reunited with Army Spc. Alexis Cross earlier this week, just in time for Christmas, the 9-month-old puppy from Syria was giddy with excitement. "I think he remembered me," said Cross, who adopted Rocket while deployed this summer. Cross, a Colorado Springs resident,...

The wages Youssef once earned as a taxi driver in Aleppo used to be enough: though the days were often long, his family had never been in need. But in recent weeks, acute fuel shortages have paralysed regime-held parts of Syria and Youssef is increasingly unable to find, let alone...

Daraa (southern Syria) - Riad al-Zein Syrian youths seeking to avoid mandatory military service by the regime usually flee to the southern provinces of Daraa and Sweida where some regions are still outside the control of the regime. The regime tried to take advantage of the situation by...

(Xinhua) -- At his workshop in Syria's central province of Hama, 42-year-old heaters maker Abdullah Ali Twait recalls how his business had thrived after the outbreak of the country's civil war 11 years ago. To cope with the protracted fuel shortage in the war-torn country, Twait has...