The Colonel held out through two years of conflict, but recently the economic conditions there have become untenable.   In 2006, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened Syria’s first American restaurant in Damascus. The franchise weathered more than two and a half years of war, but...

The UN food aid agency said Friday that it feared a rise in malnutrition among children trapped in besieged communities in Syria where fighting has halted supply convoys. "The World Food Programme is concerned about the fate of many Syrians trapped in conflict areas and still in need of...

  Orient TV reporter has been kidnapped in Aleppo in area controlled by al-Qaeda affiliate, the State of Iraq and The Levant, media sources said to Zaman Alwasl . Mouayyed Salloum is citizen journalist and activist,  he started working as a reporter...

    Hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence and turmoil at home are being turned back by Jordan and other neighboring countries, Amnesty International said today in a new report that calls for urgent international support to increase humanitarian aid and resettlement to...