Despite many attempts at negotiations, the Syrian war – a conflict with a complicated and constantly changing cast of characters that has killed as many as 585,000 people and displaced over half of Syria’s prewar population – has proved extremely difficult to resolve. As the war...

First-hand experience is a critical factor in the authority of official war art. Syrian artist Nour Zantah has plenty. Born in Homs in 1989, she watched the violation of her country in the opening months of the civil war. The turning point was when protesters in her home city swarmed around...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese authorities have imposed complete isolation on refugee camps and a curfew on those residing in Lebanese cities, saying such precautionary measures would halt the Coronavirus spread while rights advocates see it as a clear discriminatory practice. Samir...

Prisoners at a Syrian jail run by Kurdish forces holding suspected ISIS (Daesh) members rioted and some escaped on Sunday, said Kurdish sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A senior member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) running Ghouiran prison in the...