After a Syrian journalist was arrested in Jordan this month some media freedom advocates linked the case to a recent thaw in Jordan-Syria relations, suggesting Syria had asked Jordan to silence opposition voices. Earlier this month, a Syrian journalist working in Jordan was arrested....

Regional countries driving to re-engage with Syria are seeking a mechanism and consensus to readmit Damascus to the Arab League, senior Middle East diplomats and officials told The National. It is a decade since the regional diplomatic body expelled Syria over the government's bloody...

 Despite calls by humanitarian and rights groups on World Children’s Day last week, the Bashar Assad regime together with its backer Russia once again targeted and injured 10 children in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Sunday. “Today, 10 children from one family were...

Kurdish protesters in northeastern Syria demonstrated outside UN offices on Sunday against what they say is the continued recruitment of teenage girls for combat, an AFP correspondent reported. A decade of war in Syria has seen all parties to the conflict recruit minors, both boys and girls....