After Syrian farmer Abdelbaqi Souleiman lost his last wheat crop to a wildfire, he had hoped for a better harvest this summer. But this spring there was hardly any rain. "Last year the field I planted was burnt to the ground," said the 48-year-old. "This year there wasn't enough...

The Lebanese army has seized 28 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser also used in making explosives, in a town near the Syrian border. Hundreds of tonnes of the substance, improperly stored in Beirut, caused a huge blast in August last year which killed more than 200 people, injured at...

nterpol has allowed Syria to rejoin its communications network, a widely criticised decision that gives Damascus new powers to pursue refugees and dissidents living outside the country. Bashar al-Assad’s regime has remained a member of the global policing body but was subject to several...

Syria's main opposition body on Sunday condemned Arab governments for working to restore ties with Bashar Al-Assad's regime, on the same day that Jordan King Abdullah II spoke to the Syrian president on the telephone for the first time in over a decade. "Acceptance of this regime and the...