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Thousands flee bombs and hunger in eastern Syria

Faraj was born in the pouring rain on a nondescript stretch of desert road in eastern Syria as his family fled escalating fighting over the Islamic State group's last bastion. His family was part of a group of around 200 civilians who managed to escape from a pocket of territory in Deir...

250,000 Syrian refugees could return home next year: UNHCR

Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday. Some 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in...

Landmine kills five children in Eastern Ghouta

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five children have been killed in a landmine explosion in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, local activists said Tuesday. The explosives are suspected to have been planted by regime forces in the village of al-Jarba during the war on the eastern enclave of...