Where you sleep. Whether your children go to school. When you can shop. The rhythm of bombardment dictates life in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, much of it spent underground. The rebel-held town, the largest in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus with more than 100,000 residents, is...

(New York Times)- The guns were silent atop Mount Qasioun, and lights on its slopes twinkled over Damascus as President Bashar al-Assad welcomed visitors to his French-Ottoman palace below. It was possible to imagine, for a moment, that there was no war in Syria. The blasts that until...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A father and two sons from coastal Tartus city were killed in the same day in the battlefield of Aleppo amid reports of more than 400 bodies for slain soldiers had been received by the military hospital of Basel al-Assad in October. Most of the bodies are still in mortuaries,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's security forces have deprived hundreds of families in Qamishli and Hasaka from receiving the humanitarian aid of the United Nations, claiming they have relatives against Bashar al-Assad. Activist Malaz al-Yusus explained that hundreds of families were...