After ten years of devastating war in Syria, people there are facing one of the worst hunger crises they have ever known, according to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP). Arif Husain, WFP chief economist, said millions of Syrians were affected. "People are closer to starvation...

A decade of war in Syria has left young Syrians with heavy personal losses and yet to face the rebuilding of their shattered homeland. A new survey by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of 1,400 Syrian nationals living in Syria or in exile in Lebanon and Germany,...

A decade of war has not only destroyed Syria's present and poisoned its future, it has damaged beyond repair some of its fabled past. Syria was an archaeologist's paradise, a world heritage home to some of the oldest and best-preserved jewels of ancient civilizations. The...

After a decade of unfathomable violence and human tragedy that has made Syria the defining war of the early 21st century, the fighting has tapered off but the suffering hasn’t. In 2011, Bashar Assad and his government briefly looked like another domino about to fall in the whirlwind...