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In Aleppo, the fate of a legendary hotel hangs in balance

For generations her husband's family managed the iconic Baron Hotel in northern Syria, but after years of war the inn is empty and Rubina Mazloumian says she is too tired to carry on. The Baron Hotel was once the fanciest in Aleppo, Syria's second city, visited by a long list of celebrated...

SNHR: 221 chemical attacks in Syria since 2012

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that documented chemical attacks in Syria have amounted to nearly 221 attacks since 23 December 2012, the date of the first recorded use of chemical weapons in the country, until 4 April. This came in a report released on Thursday on the...

Army shelling kills 22 civilians in Idlib: monitor

Heavy bombardment by the Syrian army of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region has killed 22 civilians, a monitor said Thursday, the latest violence to theaten a seven-month-old truce. The ceasefire was brokered by the main foreign backers of the warring parties in September to head off a...