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Dutch priest keeps faith in Syria's besieged Homs

There is little food or hope left in Syria's besieged Old City of Homs. But an elderly Dutch priest has remained there in solidarity with the Syrians he considers countrymen. Father Frans van der Lugt has spent nearly five decades in Syria, a country he loves so dearly that he...

‘My thoughts were misread,’ says Halla Diyab

A British-Syrian TV pundit is threatening to sue social media users who slander her or threaten her life after her recent controversial views regarding  not allowing Syrian refugees to come to Britain  were aired on a BBC program. Halla Diyab, a writer and producer based in...

Hundreds evacuated from besieged camp of Yarmouk

Aid agencies in Syria have evacuated hundreds of people from the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Yarmouk, a government-aligned Palestinian group said on Saturday, in a rare moment of coordination between the government and rebel forces. Granting relief groups access to an estimated...

Syria death toll tops 136,000, future talks uncertain

The death toll in Syria's civil war has topped 136,000 after January saw one of the conflict's bloodiest months, an NGO said Saturday, as violence claimed even more lives. But the prospects of a peaceful outcome looked dim after 10 days of talks in Geneva yielded no tangible results...