Armed with assault rifles and with faces wrapped in scarves, the Islamic State fighters visible at the boundary of their last enclave in eastern Syria are among the hardened jihadists who appear ready to fight to the death. Thousands of people - many of them the wives of Islamic...

 ( Zaman Al Wasl)-  Near the Umayyad Square, few blocks from Bashar al-Assad's Palace  in Damascus , hundreds of Syrian were victims of the arbitrary arrest and forced disappearing.  Al-Tahouna prison, or Mill prison,  is affiliated to the elite Republican...

On the domed roof of a historical market in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, architect Bassel al-Daher moves between workers painstakingly working to erase the scars of war. Men wearing vests and helmets repair parts of the roof still bearing visible traces of the four-year-long battle...

The United Nations refugee agency should have a bigger presence inside Syria to observe and help refugees returning from abroad and from displacement within the war-torn country, UNHCR Commissioner Filippo Grandi said on Saturday. After almost eight years of fighting, President Bashar...