They have been waiting for two and half years and the children of Iraq's east Mosul are flocking to enrol in their reopened schools, eager not to waste another day. "It's a great day, today we are giving our children their right to receive an education," said Ghassan Ahmed, queueing with his...

Syrian government forces and their allies drove ISIS militants out of several villages northeast of Aleppo between Tuesday and Wednesday, opposition-aligned activists said, bringing them closer to territory held by Turkish-backed rebels. Advances in the last week have brought the Syrian army...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Yasmin and Wala, two Syrian refugee sisters in Lebanon suffer of hepatomegaly, in which the liver get enlarged by many causes, but the cause has not been diagnosed in these two children. The mother, Thana al-Hussein, a refugee from Bab-Amr in Homs to Lebanon, told Zaman...

A Syrian family of pastry chefs, the Sakkas, once delighted the people of Homs with their sugar-soaked Levantine delicacies, until a rain of bombs turned them into refugees. Now, after a four-year odyssey, they have reopened the family's sweet-tooth haven in Berlin, a baklava shop called the...