(Al-Monitor)- The Assi River and orchards surrounding the river separate al-Waer district, a northwestern suburb of Homs, from the city. Despite its proximity to strategic sites such as the military academy, the military hospital and Homs’ refinery, the district was considered a paradise and...

In Syria's Aleppo, men throw rubble into the courtyard of a historic inn as merchants gather below to oversee the resurrection of their war-battered shops. The shopkeepers have returned for the first time to clear the debris left behind by years of fighting after their century-old trading...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities have detained tens of Syrian refugees in Ataturk airport in Istanbul over holding passports issued by the opposition's National Coalition, sources said. Many Syrians were forced to get a “coalition passport” issued as a temporary solution because they...

( The Guardian )- The UK accepts that Bashar al-Assad should be allowed to run for re-election in the event of a peace settlement in Syria, Boris Johnson has said, in a dramatic reversal of the British policy stretching back to the early days of the civil war that the president must go....