A Turkish foundation built 600 new houses for families in the Idlib region in northwestern Syria, the group announced on Monday. Ihsan Acik, the Turkey Diyanet Foundation's (TDV) vice president, said the first phase of the foundation's Goodness Housing project was now complete. The...

Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians are being sent by Turkey to Azerbaijan to guard Turkish troops and strategic assets, with suspicions that they may soon find themselves in the current Nagorno-Karabakh clashes, Middle East Eye has learnt. A source based in Turkey with direct knowledge...

Suhail Deeb was eager to harvest his olives before sweeping forest fires that ravaged parts of Syria at the weekend left him with nothing but charred trunks and branches. "I used to have 100 trees, but now nothing is left," said the 61-year-old farmer at his blackened olive grove in the...

Mosques across Syria held prayers calling for rain yesterday, in an effort to ease a drought that recently hit the country. The prayers were said to have been ordered by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The Middle East was hit by wildfires in recent weeks, forcing thousands of people...