TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — In late April, Hussein Dinnawi, his wife Samar and several dozen other Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians set off by boat from northern Lebanon under the cover of night, entrusting their fate to smugglers on a treacherous sea voyage in search of better opportunities in...

Sunday marks nine years since the Ghouta massacre, in which the Syrian regime used Sarin gas in the suburbs of Damascus, killing over 1,000 civilians in the first major chemical incident of the Syrian civil war.  In the early hours of the morning on 21 August 2013, at least 12 rockets...

Northeast Syria is facing a severe water crisis which has caused widespread disruption to irrigation systems, food production and power generation, as well as a shortage in drinking water, the United Nations said in a statement on Wednesday. “It is clear to me, having visited and spoken to...

The influx of social media influencers into Syrian regime-held areas has increased in recent times with the easing of precautionary measures imposed by most countries under the COVID-19 pandemic. A good number of these Arab Youtubers have been active, especially the Syrians who...