(Writing by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Amal, the 23-year-old Syrian girl was hesitant to talk about her traumatizing experience during detention in Syrian regime’s prisons. Amal joined the revolution since the beginning, despite she is from Hama, the Syrian city known of...

The military commander of the Syrian insurgent group Nour al-din al-Zinki Battalion has been killed, the group said in a statement Monday. Nasif Ismail was killed fighting in southern Aleppo, where a major ground offensive by Syrian army troops seeking to regain rebel-held...

When Uruguay announced last year that it would be taking in five families fleeing Syria's devastating civil war, residents of this small town pulled together and lobbied to host one. Then in November, locals welcomed a newly arrived Merhi Alshebli, his wife and their 15...

The young man scratched his beard and shrugged, dismissing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's call to vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday: "I'm boycotting. They didn't respect my choice the first time so what's the point?" Egypt has had no parliament since June 2012, when a...