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Syrian girl walks to school again with prosthetic leg

A 12-year-old Syrian girl in Turkey was able to walk again after she got a prosthetic leg. Seyma Elcellud was critically injured by shrapnel from a bombing on their house in Syria's Deir al-Zor city seven years ago. Her left leg was amputated below the knee. The attack left...

Syrian ups local wheats purchasing price for 2021 season

Syria's cabinet upped the local purchasing price for wheat for the 2021 season to 900 Syrian pounds a kilogram from around 425 pounds in the past season, Syria's state news agency said on Tuesday. The Syrian pound, which held steady at around 500 to the dollar for several years, went...

Syrian heritage suffered 'cultural apocalypse

A decade of war has not only destroyed Syria's present and poisoned its future, it has damaged beyond repair some of its fabled past. Syria was an archaeologist's paradise, a world heritage home to some of the oldest and best-preserved jewels of ancient civilizations. The...

Ten years on, peace remains elusive in Syria

After a decade of unfathomable violence and human tragedy that has made Syria the defining war of the early 21st century, the fighting has tapered off but the suffering hasn’t. In 2011, Bashar Assad and his government briefly looked like another domino about to fall in the whirlwind...