(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have closed Morek crossing, the strategic passage between Hama and Idlib provinces, activists said Friday. Before surprise shutdown, the regime has imposed royalties on buses carrying people of rebel-held areas in Idlib to regime-held areas in Hama....

Kurdish officials told AFP on Friday there was no progress on repatriating dozens of French nationals, including accused Islamic State fighters, women, and children, from prison camps in northern Syria. France announced last month it may bring back some 130 nationals held by the autonomous...

They survived the Islamic State group's crumbling "caliphate" by a thread, but skeletal babies streaming into this displacement camp in northeastern Syria now face a race against malnutrition. Truckloads of gaunt women and children fleeing IS's last stand in the Euphrates Valley disembark...

A U.N. watchdog urged Syria on Thursday to grant full rights to its displaced children, adding that thousands had been killed, tortured or enslaved during the country’s civil war. Rights experts said all children living in opposition-held areas and returning as refugees should be given...