A solo show by a Syrian painter on Monday opened its doors in Istanbul. Ibrahim al-Hasan's exhibit "Childhood on the Sidewalk," featuring 20 paintings, had a gala opening at the Independent Arts Foundation in the Fatih district's Cagaloglu neighborhood, on the city’s European side....

After years of fighting, crippling siege and bombardment, what was once the Palestinian diaspora's largest urban settlement in southern Damascus has been reduced to a sea of debris. Former residents of the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk are desperately counting on assistance from abroad to help...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces launched an arrest campaign against former rebels in southern Damascus suburbs, local activists said Monday. The campaign followed the death of a soldier who fatally stabbed by unknown assailants in the town of Buwaeidha south of the capital.  ...

A Russian delegation led by the country's special envoy for Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, met Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Sunday. According to a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry, the two sides discussed the results of the four-nation Istanbul Summit...