I've spent much of the last week in Antakya, an ancient city, known to Byzantine Christians as Antioch, which now serves as a bivouac for Syrian rebel fighters and a jumping-off point for journalists and humanitarian actors working in Syria, which lies 20...

Fighting factions in the city of Manbij, north eastern Syria agreed to affiliate the mills and bakeries of the city to their control, local sources told Eqtsad, Business newspaper . The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sahm, Al-Qaeda-linked group, has insisted on...

    Local sources from the border city of Azaz said The Islamic State of Iraq an al-Sham', al-Qaeda affiliate group had prevented  its rival The North Storm from of dragging its casualties corpses from the battle-field near Ma'rin village, according to...

Ikea, known for its affordable flatpack furniture, is moving into new territory: refugee housing. The Swedish retailer has teamed up with the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) to develop a   flatpack shelter   that can be quickly assembled on site. Recently...