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Syrians commemorate revolution's 11th anniversary

Tens of thousands of people in the opposition-led areas in northwestern Syria went to streets on Tuesday commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Syrian revolution.   Zaman al-Wasl's correspondent said the demonstrators gathered in the main squares in the city of Idlib and the cities of...

Ukraine: NGO says over 40,000 Syrians enlisted by Russia

Russia has enlisted more than 40,000 Syrian militiamen thus far in Syria, according to reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has been using a dense network of local sources on the ground for years. SOHR said Russian military representatives haven't yet...

Ukraine war recalls trauma for survivors of Aleppo siege

When Afraa Hashem thinks back about living through the siege of Aleppo, she remembers how inventive everyone was. In late 2016, Syrian government forces had sealed off Aleppo's rebel-held eastern half, with 270,000 people inside, and for months they and Russian warplanes blasted it to...

Syrian doctor fleeing one war is caught by another

Syrian doctor Ossama Jari fled Damascus in 2014 to find peace with his Ukrainian wife in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv. But now war, and Russian bombs, have caught up with him. In an ophthalmology clinic in the northeast Ingulski district of the city, Jari huddled for safety with other...