Nearly half a million Syrians have returned to their homes so far this year, including 440,000 internally displaced people and more than 31,000 returning from neighbouring countries, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Most returned to Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus, it said,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 regime army troops from the coastal city of Latakia in a week of clashes that take place in the desert and in southern Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included General, Colonel, Colonel Lieutenant, 2 Captains and 2 lieutenants, mostly...

( Middle East Eye )- Back when Samer al-Kadri ran a publishing house producing children’s books in Damascus, he dreamt of opening a cultural centre, but it was only when he was forced to flee his homeland that he established one. After opening Pages, a successful bookshop and cultural...

( The Guardian )- What has the White House alleged? The Syrian military is making preparations for a chemical weapons attack that “would result in the mass murder of civilians, including children”. How has the Assad regime used chemical weapons in the past? It has deployed them in...