(The Daily Star)- A blaze Saturday destroyed large parts of a makeshift Syrian camp in east Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported. Three people suffered shortness of breath in the fire, which erupted at an encampment in Taanayel in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They were treated in a...

 Syrian rebels and a monitoring group said two explosions that struck a Syrian town near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday were caused by an Israeli air strike but Lebanon's Hezbollah blamed rocket fire by al Qaeda-linked militants. At least one blast struck near the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of civilians were injured and killed by shooting of people celebrating the Turkish coup in Latakia, Tartus, Homs and countryside, and suburb of Damascus loyal to Assad’s regime. Loyalists’ Facebook pages mentioned that heavy shooting took...

Two commanders from Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (RGC) were killed this week in Syria’s northwestern Aleppo province, Iranian media reported Monday. Seyyid Riza Mirasi, a retired RGC colonel, was killed earlier this week, according to local media accounts, while RGC Major...