More than 23 civilians were killed by heavy insurgent shelling on government-controlled areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo, including near a mosque where children were taking religious lessons, Reuters reported Monday. State-run media said heavy shelling from Aleppo districts under the control...

  The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Monday it had encircled the ISIS-controlled town of Tal Abyad, the nearest border town to the militant's de facto capital of Raqqa city, Reuters said. YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said the militia had surrounded the town along the Turkish border, pushing...

After four years living in the capital of Isil's caliphate, Hassan's life story reads like the plot of a James Bond film. But the scars on his body and the photos he carries of murdered friends show his ordeal is all too real. Hassan, who asks for his full name not to be used for fear of...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Syrian community in Istanbul celebrated on Friday the opening of “Pages”, the first Arabic library in the city which contains wide variety of Arabic, Turkish, English and French books. Samer al-Qadiri, an artist and one of the library’s...