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(Reuters) - Local ceasefires in Syria may be the best way to ease the suffering of civilians in the absence of a political solution to the three-and-a-half year conflict, researchers from the London School of Economics said on Monday. In a report that looked at more than 35...

By Laila Bassam and Sylvia Westall RASHAYA Lebanon (Reuters) - On mountains close to the Syrian border, members of Lebanon's minority Druze sect say they are ready to defend their towns and villages with arms if the civil war next raging door gets much nearer....

By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Period of electricity cut-off has increased in Damascus and countryside, because regime lost control on petrol fields and pipes, refineries and electricity generation...