Shayma al Hassan sits framed in the gloomy threshold of her makeshift home at Jibjanine refugee camp, Lebanon. Motionless, alone with her thoughts, a contrast to the chorus of hungry stray cats and the white tarp chattering in the afternoon breeze. Shayma, five, a Syrian refugee born in...

Turkey has equipped an array of mainstream Syrian rebels it backs with fresh supplies of weaponry to help them try to repel a major Russian-backed assault, senior opposition officials and rebel sources said on Saturday. Russia is backing the Syrian regime’s large aerial and ground assault...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than a dozen of regime forces were killed and wounded when the Islamic State militants stormed their base in the Syrian desert, local activists said Saturday. The attack on regime troops in Badiya al-Sham near the the Iraqi border was the second in a week....

Lebanese security forces on Saturday denied accusations by rights groups that they had coerced Syrians who had landed at Beirut airport into signing forms to return to their war-torn country. Human Rights Watch and four other groups Friday accused Lebanon of "summarily deporting" at least...