( Al-Arabiya )- The UN refugee agency on Thursday chose as a goodwill ambassador a Syrian teenage girl who helped save a boat carrying fellow refugees and later became an Olympic swimmer. Yusra Mardini joined other notables like actress Cate Blanchett and author Khaled Hosseini in the unpaid...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Criminal Investigation directorate in coastal Tartus city has arrested a female member of an abduction gang connected to security officers in Latakia and Tartus, where many people were victims of its crimes. The security forces and criminal section in Tartus and Latakia...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime and Iran’s plans to change the demography of Homs provincehave been succeeded as the people of al-Waer neighborhood keep heading the northern Syria in weekly batches. The opposition has not yet instituted any plans to accommodate these newly displaced persons...

( The New Arab )- Civilian deaths in Syria from Russian air strikes are at their highest since the fall of rebel-held Aleppo to regime forces in December according to one monitoring group.  According to the UK-based Airwars - which specialises in monitoring and assessing civilian...