When Uruguay announced last year that it would be taking in five families fleeing Syria's devastating civil war, residents of this small town pulled together and lobbied to host one. Then in November, locals welcomed a newly arrived Merhi Alshebli, his wife and their 15...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) It can be justified for the Syrian intelligence to miss the process of planning and implementing of the operation of Bassam al-Adel when he escaped the country with the MiG-23 fighting airplane in 1989 and landed in Israel.  But what can raise huge question...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Tribes Battalion, key unit of Southern Front rebel group, has detailed circumstances around disappearance of of Captain Hussein al-Ahmad, the only Alawite defector among Free Syrian army in Daraa province. Last Saturday morning Capt. Hussein al-Ahmad was...

The U.N. refugee agency chief questioned on Monday the European Union's strategy of building more camps in Turkey to stem the flow of refugees into Europe, saying it would be more effective if host countries allowed refugees to work. The EU has pledged at least 1 billion euros...