More than 15 Syrian-Palestinian refugees were arrested after their return from Europe or neighboring countries to Syria, a Palestinian rights monitoring said Thursday.   Among the detainees, 13 people who were arrested after their return from Lebanon, a refugee after returning from...

The Syrian refugee Razan Al-Aqal has obtained a scholarship in scientific research, after she graduated with distinction from her high school in the German state of Holstein.    Al-Aqal, 19, has chosen to study virology and immunology at the Faculty of Medicine  ...

  Fadi Hassan is a research associate at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance and Andrea Presbitero is an associate professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. In this guest post they argue the economic sanctions against Syria should be...

 Since the civil war, through wars with Israel, militant bombings and domestic turmoil, Lebanese have considered their military as an anchor for stability, one of the only institutions standing above the country’s divisions. But the military is now threatened by Lebanon’s...