Canada will accept as many as 1,300 Syrian refugees by the end of 2014, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday in Edmonton. But the government is relying on private sponsors for the vast majority of those cases. The federal...
Syrian rebels in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday threatened to seize two Shi'ite Muslim villages that back President Bashar al-Assad unless they surrendered to the opposition. Activists say both Nubl and Zahra villages had been reinforced by Assad's allies in the...
Islamist rebels in Syria's northern city of Aleppo issued an order on Monday banning women from dressing in what it considered provocative styles, angering some locals who accuse the group of overstepping its powers. The Islamic law council of Aleppo's...
Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee Syria . Iraq , Jordan , and Turkey have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of...
