After media interest helped mobilise the evacuation of an Albanian boy from northern Syria last month, families of other children of Islamic State fighters are pleading with Tirana to redouble its efforts and bring the rest home. Alvin Berisha, an 11-year-old Albanian boy from Italy, was...

The Syrian pound hit a record low Monday amid the country’s grinding civil war, now in its ninth year, and as a financial and political crisis roils neighboring Lebanon, Syria’s economic lung. When Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011, a dollar was valued at 47 pounds. On Monday, it...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 people were arrested by the State Intelligence in the eastern suburbs of Damascus amid a major conscription campaign as regime army mobilizes forces to take last rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria. The Capital Voice, local news site, said that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on rebel-held Idlib province have killed at least 13 people and wounded 20 more, local activists said Monday.   The strikes hit a vegetable market in the densely populated town of Maarat al-Numan, south of Idlib city. ...